Hast thou a favourite quote by the bard Shakespeare?

" beware the green-eyed monster it doth mock the meat it feeds upon"

food for thought

Beware the green-eyed monster it doth mock the meat it feeds upon

Othello

Beware the green-eyed monster it doth mock the meat it feeds upon

Othello

Beware the green-eyed monster it doth mock the meat it feeds upon

Othello

Beware the green eyed monster it doth mock the meat it feeds upon

Othello

Food for thought

To be or not to be, that is the question

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I have a few people this could apply to -

He hath not so much brain as earwax

Troilus and Cressida

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” He was a wise old chap!

Wot no witches?

1st witch (me aged 11!)
Round about the cauldron go:
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Sweated venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first in the charmed pot.

All:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

etc. etc.

We had a Shakespeare festival every year at school. That was my last year as a decent character, after that I was stuck with female love interest, such as Bianca. I LOVE the witches!

Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,
Smarting in lingering pickle.( Anthony and Cleopatra Act ll Sc.v )
A threat the kids never took seriously.

"..we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
Spoken by Ophelia, Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5

What rhubarb, senna, or what powerful drug, would scour these English hence? Macbeth (or perhaps Alex Salmond.)

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet" from Romeo and Juliet.

I love this quote from Prospero:

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

The Tempest Act 4, scene 1

As I get older and nearer to dying I find it very comforting.

"Tybalt, you rat catcher, will you walk?"

Not the most attractive or romantic, but love the whole rat catcher, lowest of the low stuff, and are you gonna walk or fight?!?!

This is apposite for Gransnetters:

Last scene of all that ends this strange eventful history
Is second childishness and mere oblivion
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste
Sans everything

"All the world's a stage", As You Like It, Act 11, Scene V11

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently, allows you to grow.

How true is this, and to have a good friend is so important

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I like this from As you like it, most famous probably but simply brilliantly put.

"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" .

Sorry, that was Hamlet to Ophelia.

I think of this every morning when I plaster my make-up on -
"God has given you one face and you make yourself another".

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Very true!

I bequeath to my wife, my second best bed?
Taken from his last 'will' and testament.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on
And our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Prospero has the last word in the Tempest.