Hast thou a favourite quote by the bard Shakespeare?

'Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,
Smarting in lingering pickle' - Cleopatra's threat.(Act ll, Sc.v)
My children never took this threat seriously !

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and siver becks me to come on.

King John - Act three- scene two

Greed or loyalty?

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III scene 2

or

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act I scene 2

'To me, fair friend, you can never be old;
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.'

Sonnet 104

Puck delivers this piece at the end of the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream and has been a favourite of mine for many years.

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends."

Beatrice in Much Ado: I couldn't abide a man with a beard on his face - I'd rather lie in the woollen.

'Mine eyes smell onions' from 'All's Well That Ends Well' is my favourite quote because it is so descriptively true and a phrase we use in the family whenever we are cutting up onions

From Twelfth Night:
"Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know."

Sung by Feste the clown. I just like the "pretty sweeting" as a term of address.

"Mine eyes smell onions. "Great for crying over a soppy film and pretending not to.
As a family we use "When shall we three meet again,"" stand not upon the order...".(we don't need to say any more) "sharper than a serpents tooth "when cross with daughters and another Lear when surrounded by cackling women," her voice was ever soft and low an excellent thing in a woman." Probably misquoted that last one about Cordelia.

hdh74 now, I like that!

One more:

"If every day were playing holiday,
To sport would be as tedious as to work."

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! - the Bard could fire a well-aimed barb.

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" is my favourite said of course by Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Always think of it when trying to remove a stain!

To Granny by the by

That is our Mantra , when travelling abroad !
Very good one at that !

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves,

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ( All's Well That Ends Well )

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love"

From Hamlet,I have always loved this quote.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

'Out Damned Spot'

I love that quote from MacBeth

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it.
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

These all memories from o'level exams and Macbeth.
On a more cheerful note:
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

The latter , if you prick me do I not also bleed ?

Or was it the Merchant of Venice ?

if I am cut do I not also bleed ?
Hamlet ?

I've always liked the curse from Macbeth Act 5 scene3:

"the devil damn thee black thou cream-faced loon" (you can put such feeling into it!)

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