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What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

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Alea Fri 05-Feb-16 09:30:18

Unashamedly cribbed from Twitter this morning

"My crown is in my heart, not on my head..." Henry VI, Part 3

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

mrsmopp Sun 07-Feb-16 14:33:34

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight
Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1

mrsmopp Sun 07-Feb-16 14:34:30

Midsummer Nights Dream, sorry!

Jalima Sun 07-Feb-16 14:35:57

You may not understand it LesleyC (and that is a shame, bad teaching I would imagine!) but I would think that you may use many of his quotes in everyday life - so many have entered the English language as they are so apt.

Jalima Sun 07-Feb-16 14:39:48

I used one in an answer to Terribull above grin

Don't 'get in a pickle' over it
Never mind, 'All's well that ends well'
wink
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/william-shakespeares-450th-birthday-50-everyday-phrases-that-came-from-the-bard-9275254.html

Jalima Sun 07-Feb-16 14:44:53

^If music be the food of love play on.
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
the appetite may sicken and so die^
Yes, Twelfth Night

entropy Sun 07-Feb-16 15:05:20

Hist! Thou black and midnight hags. (The Scottish Play)
f allthe world's a stage, where does the audience sit?

Jalima Sun 07-Feb-16 15:47:25

We are all 'merely players' entropy!

Bez1989 Sun 07-Feb-16 18:58:54

"To thine own self be true"
from Hamlet

Irenelily Sun 07-Feb-16 19:53:55

Love all the quotes!
As a teenager in the throes of unrequited love - "what shall Cordelia do, love and be silent" was meaningful! I also felt sad that her father, King Lear didn't understand his three daughters very well!
The other quote that I have always liked is from Julius Caesar " the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings" a reminder that we mustn't give up but with effort can shape our lives. Thanks to a really good English teacher that I really enjoyed the plays we read - but never found them as entertaining to read on my own!