The Gratuitous William Shakespeare Quoting Thread

[Chichiri]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
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.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. I do. I will.

[SocratesInSpirit]

2. Out, damned spot!

:freak:

[chaska]

14. ...and if you piss on the carpet one more time...!

[SocratesInSpirit]

15. LOL

:rofl:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. "Hath not a Jew eyes. Hath not a Jew hands."

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. Banish poor Fallstaff and banish all the world!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon

That monthly changes in its circled orb. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

[Chichiri]

6. What shall I swear by?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. Do not swear at all

Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my idolatry, and I'll believe thee.

[Chichiri]

10. If my heart's dear love . . .

[JohnLocke]

8. "This day is called the feast of Crispian..." (my favorite)

That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3

[chaska]

11. Oh yeah, love that 'un.

[chaska]

9. Wow, I was just looking for a Shakes quote. Anybody got this one....?

It's something like "Will no one relieve me of this man?" I can't remember if it's exact (prolly not) or what play it's from. The king (presumably) wants someone killed or something.

Who's got it?

[Chichiri]

17. Are you thinking of Henry II . . .

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

Not Shakespeare.

[JohnLocke]

18. I think you are referring to Thomas Becket

According to legend, tension between King Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, caused Henry to exclaim, "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"--words that were understood as orders by four knights, who assassinated the cleric.

I can find any Shakespearean reference to Becket; he made several histories, but none about Henry II. However, a 1961 French-language play by Jean Anouilh about the assassination was entitled Becket.

[chaska]

12. From memory (I played the part of Romeo in high school)...

But soft what light through yon window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon,
For you, her maid, art far more fair than she.

Hmm, I guess that's all I remember.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. I had to memorize this sonnet in high school

Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain
Without thy help by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so; I love thee in such sort
As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

[RevolutionaryActs]

16. To be or not to be,

that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up arms against a troubles and by opposing end them? To die, to sleep no more and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep perchance to dream, ay there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause.




And that's all I remember. :D

[Chichiri]

19. There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action.

[hfojvt]

49. how could I forget

"the pangs of disprized love?"

It is not like I have ever experienced that??

and "the insolence of office"

how appropriate is that to our day.

bodkin and fardels are also not in the translation I memorised

"sicklied over with the pale cast of thought" is obviously a slur about my iron deficiency anemia and I will have none of that. :D

[hfojvt]

48. a SEA OF troubles

and bah, I cannot find any Shakespeare in this house and my memory balks at the next line, something about "makes calamity of such long life. For who would bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life. Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy take when he himself might his quietus make with a bare dagger, but that the dread of something after death, that undiscovered country from whose boundary no traveller returns makes them rather bear those ills they know than to fly to other's they know not of. Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, and thus enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action."

Or words to that effect.

[Floogeldy]

20. Shakespeare bores the hell out of me.

;)

Nothing personal. I'm sure Bill was a fine human being.

[bridgit]

22. "I would my horse had the speed of your tongue..."

:rofl:

[Floogeldy]

26. Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla?

Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla?

Heh. Sorry. ;)

[bridgit]

28. ah, so forest gump is more your 'speed'...

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[Floogeldy]

33. Life is like a bawks of chicklettes!

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;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Ah, my dear Floog....

Some fine day...rent the DVD Henry V...and watch it...

And THEN tell me that Shakespeare bores the hell out of you...

It is MAGNIFICENT....

:loveya:

The actor playing Henry V is Kenneth Branagh...edited to add...

[Floogeldy]

31. Bill made a DVD?

Awesome.

;)

[bridgit]

32. no dude, it's pronouced: duh-vah-duh...

ala zoolander :rofl:

[Floogeldy]

47. Go ahead. Make fun of my accent.

You cruel, cruel Bluebird.

:cry:

[hfojvt]

50. he sorta depressed the hell of out me

as a high school student we did Macbeth in English class and I read several others - King Lear, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. I was not happy about stories that ended with everyone dead. So let me blame Billy along with Hemingway and Goethe for making me suicidal in my early 20s. Maybe it is not a good idea to study too much without a mentor.

[bridgit]

21. "O God, that I were a man!

"I would eat...his...heart in the market-place."

[chaska]

58. Wow, that's a curious choice. Makes me wonder about Bridgit...

Lady, you doth frighteneth me.

[bridgit]

67. fear not, that is Beatrice, friend, in the chapel & seeking

the good offices of: The Benedick, revolved round & about the greater ill-slandering of her good cousin, Hero, destroying in that process, if while however temporary; the entirety of her futures & potential happiness as a maid & true :hi:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

23. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

Oh no - I'm dead!

[khashka]

24. Here's mine:

What a piece of work is man
How noble in reason
How infinite in faculty
In form and moving how express and admirable
In action how like an angel
In apprehension how like a god
The beauty of the world
The paragon of animals

And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Man delights not me: no nor woman neither.



Khash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. How beautiful is that , my dear Khash....

I had forgotten it...

Thank you


:hug:

[khashka]

43. Beautiful?

I was thinking "bitter".

I almost went with:

"I have of late but wherefore I know not lost all my mirth...."

Or "Full fathom five thy Father lies..."

Kinda sucks.. I prefer the comedies but only remember lines from the tragedies. Go figure.

Khash.

[BiggJawn]

27. "He who would scoff at scars..."

"...has never felt a wound."

Kinda fits the BFEE, doesn't it?

[bridgit]

29. too true...

[chaska]

59. That's awesome!

[6000eliot]

30. That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

[Fight_n_back]

34. Oh for a muse of fire

to ascend the brightest heaven of invention.


I love the little doublets he does in that, Muse=invention..fire=brightest, ascend=heaven. Just real purty.


I like the whole prologue the Henry V.

[crispini]

35. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things,

O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome.
Knew you not Pompey?

it's from Julius Caesar, and we used to yell it at each other in our English class in high school. :D

[Beware the Beast Man]

36. "Methinks White Castle doth given me the screamers."

[tigereye]

41. philistine!

;)

[AVulgarianHue]

37. Thou speakest aright;

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

[sakabatou]

38. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

[quiet.american]

39. Cowards die many times before their deaths....

....Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

[tigereye]

42. I like this one from Love's Labours Lost

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

[Theres-a]

44. To bed, to bed, there's knocking at the gate!

G'nite DU!:hi:

[MisterP]

45. "I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;

Question enrages him."
wait, that's Dubyeth

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

46. Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 3.

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?

[BlueIris]

51. Those wounds heal ill, that men do give themselves.

[Supply Side Jesus]

52. "The evil that men do lives after them"

Julius Ceasar Act:3 Sc:5

[Ivan Sputnik]

53. Hath not old custom made this life more sweet

Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The season's difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say
'This is no flattery: these are counsellors
That feelingly persuade me what I am.'

As You Like It, Act II, Scene I

[Aristus]

54. "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in a silver sea,

(snip)

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England..."


Now THAT'S a patriotic speech!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

62. My dear Aristus...

Where is this quote from? I don't recognize it, and it is lovely...

Yes indeed...very patriotic...

:loveya: :hug:

[Aristus]

66. It's from 'Richard II', John of Gaunt's dying speech to Bolingbrook.

A few years back, the British Tourism Bureau used an edited version in a tourism promotion on TV. Very effective.

[noonwitch]

55. Hey, non, nonny

So, sigh not so, and let them go
and be you blithe and bonny
converting all your sounds of woe
into "hey, non nonny".

[RFKHumphreyObama]

56. From the Merchant of Venice

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

[Aristus]

57. Shouldn't you have B*sh's picture next to that quote?

n/t

[SOteric]

60. I could be bound in a nutshell

and count myself king of infinite space,
were it not that I have dreams.

Hamlet

[alarcojon]

61. From King Henry IV, part I

Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along:
Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.

[Left Is Write]

63. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

[elshiva]

64. "I am your spaniel"

Midsummer's Night Dream

[gratuitous]

65. I do not, will not quote Shakespeare

I do not, will not in a boat
I do not, will not with a goat

[RPM]

68. Bitches ain't shit 'cuz they're all into gafflin'

oh, wait - that's Ant Banks.

[LouisianaLiberal]

69. I love this thread.

Love's not love which alters when it alteration finds

I wish I could remember Jacque's speech - Why, all the world's a stage
Each has his exits and his entrances,
And each man in his time plays many parts
His acts being seven
(I've screwed this up so badly I'll stop here)

There are people staying in my "library" so I can't get to my Shakespeare.

Life is a tale told by an idiot,
Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

70. I'd rather quote Cole Porter, if that's OK

The girls today in society go for classical poetry
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides
One must know Homer, and believe me, Beau
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope
Dainty Debbies will call you a dope
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The Bard of Stratford on Avon

{Refrain}
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
Just declaim a few lines from Othella
And they'll think you're a hell of a fella
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
What are clothes? Much ado about nussing
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow


With the wife of the British ambessida
Try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida
If she says she won't buy it or tike it
Make her tike it, what's more As You Like It

If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow

If you can't be a ham and do Hamlet
They will not give a damn or a damlet
Just recite an occasional sonnet
And your lap'll have honey upon it

When your baby is pleading for pleasure
Let her sample your Measure for Measure
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow (Forsooth)
And they'll all kow-tow ( I' faith)
And they'll all kow-tow

Better mention "The Merchant Of Venice"
When her sweet pound o' flesh you would menace
If her virtue, at first, she defends---well
Just remind her that "All's Well That Ends Well"

And if still she won't give you a bonus
You know what Venus got from Adonis
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow - Thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow - Odds bodkins
And they'll all kow-tow

If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If she then wants an all-by-herself night
Let her rest ev'ry 'leventh or "Twelfth Night"

If because of your heat she gets huffy
Simply play on and "Lay on, Macduffy!"
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kow-tow (Forsooth)
And they'll all kow-tow (Thinkst thou?)
And they'll all kow-tow (We trou')
And they'll all kow-tow..