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What is your favorite quote from Shakespeare

  • 14-03-2009 8:24pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31


    Here is mine

    And thus I clothe my naked villainy
    With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,
    And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
    Richard III. 1. 3


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Lovecat


    "The dawn in russet mantle clad walks o'er the dew of yond high eastward hill" -Hamlet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 645 ✭✭✭TriceMarie


    "Faster than his tounge did make offence his eye did heal it up"
    - As You Like It


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
    Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

    -Hamlet


  • Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭WomanSkirtFan8


    My favourite, at the moment:

    "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
    Signifying nothing."

    Macbeth


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    My favourite is:

    "For this relief much thanks"

    Hamlet.

    I think of it every time I go to the loo with a bursting bag:D.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭WomanSkirtFan8


    another of my favourites:

    "This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!"

    Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 233 ✭✭Kalman


    A good reputation is the most valuable thing we have—men and women alike.
    If you steal my money, you’re just stealing trash. It’s something, it’s nothing: it’s yours, it’s mine, and it’ll belong to thousands more.

    But if you steal my reputation, you’re robbing me of something that doesn’t make you richer, but makes me much poorer
    .

    Othello [Act 3]


  • Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭WomanSkirtFan8


    Another favourite of mine:

    "The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."
    The Merchant Of Venice, Act IV, Scene I

    :)


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