What's your favourite Shakespeare line or quote?

the complete monologue, i'm suicidal

>Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
I remember reading this in high school and this line caught my attention for some odd and unknown reason. I kept thinking about it throughout that whole day.

>A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind
>Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.

"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me"

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

Lol I knew someone would post this, but every time I read it just screams edgy 17 year old.

Do you dislike the style or the content or both?

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Fan you into despair! Have the power still
To banish your defenders; till at length
Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
Making not reservation of yourselves,
Still your own foes, deliver you as most
Abated captives to some nation
That won you without blows! Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.

Pleb answer but I'll stand by it:
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, for we are underlings.

"aye, there's the rub"
I say it all the time.

"amelia, please finish the play by tomorrow"

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This, or:
But I am as constant as the Northern Star
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament

>I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er,
Use it all the time

Source on this? I call BS

"Since I was man,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry
Th'affliction nor the fear."

No shit BS, this was either made by revisionist blacks, the same that claim they were kangz or a false flagger

"Mine eye is in my mind"
and
"Who would believe my verse in time to come, if it were filled with your most high deserts..."

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>There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

WE WUHZ PLAYWRIGHTS

Everything that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.
t. Mario Cars

Here was a Caesar!. When comes such another?

from Measure for Measure:

Be absolute for death; either death or life
Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
Servile to all the skyey influences,
That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;

from A Midsummer Night's Dream

The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Shakespeare really was on another level, wasn't he? There isn't anyone with more lines that have the power his does, but I always had trouble reading him in full. Did Hamlet and the Tempest recently but kind of cheated by listening to the Librivox recordings while reading along on the page.

Julius Caesar, Act III. Scene I. lines 254-275.

>Antony. O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
>That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
>Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
>That ever lived in the tide of times.
>Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
>Over thy wounds now do I prophesy
>(Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
>To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue),
>A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
>Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
>Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
>Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
>And dreadful objects so familiar,
>That mothers shall but smile when they behold
>Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
>All pity choked with custom of fell deeds;
>And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
>With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
>Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
>Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war,
>That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
>With carrion men, groaning for burial.

I like it a lot too. It's not my favorite. He's probably is or has been suicidal.

Yup. You'll be okay, user i hope

I quote Benedict's line "there's a double meaning in that" a lot. I saw the Branagh film when I was like 14 and Much Ado got me into Shakespeare. As a teenager I quoted it an obnoxious amount instead of saying "that's what she said", got to the point where all my friends were quoting Shakespeare too. 27 now and I still quote it.

Titus talking to dirt is pretty high up for me.

Why, tis no matter, man; if they did hear,
They would not mark me, or if they did mark,
They would not pity me, yet plead I must;
And bootless unto them [—]
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;
Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
For that they will not intercept my tale:
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;
And, were they but attired in grave weeds,
Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
A stone is soft as wax,—tribunes more hard than stones;
A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.
[Rises]
But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn?

We're all just trying to catchup to Shakespeare. a bit hyperbolic, but I think it's at least somewhat true.

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Gake and fay

>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy

>Cowards die many times before their deaths;
>The valiant never taste of death but once.
>Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
>It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
>Seeing that death, a necessary end,
>Will come when it will come.
Strange how so many people choose Julius Caesar but it's not particularly highly regarded as a general rule.

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bleed

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.

Buddys fucking next level

>a man of infinite jest

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know’st we work by wit and not by witchcraft,
And wit depends on dilatory time.

tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind

This is so beautiful I feel bad for people who can't immediately see Shakespeare's monumental genius just by reading his verse, and am going to read Shakespeare's plays again. Thanks for posting these.

it's ruined for a lot of people by teaching it in the classroom. any averagely intelligent person, once exposed to him, will inevitably feel that zealous and jealous love for shakespeare. though the pleasantest, speediest, and safest way is the theatre.

Though ’tis no wisdom to confess so much
Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,
My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
My numbers lessened, and those few I have
Almost no better than so many French,
Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
I thought upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,
That I do brag thus. This your air of France
Hath blown that vice in me. I must repent.

Henry V - Act 3, Scene 6, Page 6
Shakespeare

I was drunk when I read it, and started crying.

Also

Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope. O shame, where is thy blush?

And

I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know

came here to post this

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall

>act like the flower but be the serpent underneath

>double double, toil and trouble
>fire burn, and cauldron bubble

ANNE
>Villain, thou know’st not law of God nor man.
>No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

RICHARD
>But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

t. Eddie Bunker

I love the opening of Richard III, especially from an Acting standpoint. Macbeth I think has his most phisophically significant quotes. Why is he NEVER mentioned as a philosopher? Dostoyevsky talks big stuff but Shakespeare covered every major theme of life and nailed it, while teaching generations and culture(s) to read (and put on a show).

imo Joyce is just a minimalist Shakespeare, in the respect to their output. By writing i think they both achieved singular style and scope.

Soft you; a word or two before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.

>When honor’s at the stake. How stand I then,
>That have a father killed, a mother stained,
>Excitements of my reason and my blood,
>And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
>The imminent death of twenty thousand men
>That for a fantasy and trick of fame
>Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
>Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
>Which is not tomb enough and continent to his the slain?

Absolute gold

joyce is nothing like shakespeare

shakespeare wrote every story that we need

I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.

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watch his plays at the theatre if you're just being introduced to him. his plays were (obviously) written to be read aloud, and not by those terrible librivox recordings with american accents and murdered pentameter.

'i pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading them ill-favoredly'

>If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have three beaten for being old before thy time.
>Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise.

— 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.

man, I wish I didn't live in the shit end of nowhere. Are there any good videos (heck, even just recordings) of Shakespeare plays?

queen mab

>'i pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading them ill-favoredly'
NOT
PENTAMETER

Not my 'favorite', but I think of this small speech by Feste often, when I'm feeling overly sentimental or saccharine:
Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the
tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for
thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such 970
constancy put to sea, that their business might be
every thing and their intent every where; for that's
it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.

"in Heaven, send hether to see and if your messenger find him not there seek him in the other place thy self"(can't remember if they're the exact words)

i think there are ways you can watch plays online, and i think there are audio recordings by gielgud, barrymore, richardson etc you can find. also the olivier films are your basic shakespeare plays, just filmed. once you know his work a little better, orson welles made 3 shakespeare films, 2 of which i'd say a much greater than any play could be.

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,
Even as I would when I to love begin

well he wrote in prose too you know.

>Why is he NEVER mentioned as a philosopher?
Good question, especially considering he’s highly regarded by most philosophers, as he should be.

because he said things everybody knows. but no doubt he was one of the great philosophers, we know he read montaigne

Confused frenchie here. Pardon the basic question, but what edition of his Complete Work should I buy ? Don’t feel lime wasting 50+$ and i’m a bit confused by all these different choices.

the second folio. are you getting it in english?

probably doesn't really matter, since its in the original language there won't be any major changes

Oh yeah, I don’t need a bilingual edition. Anyway I got all these french translations lying around, which i’ll refer to if I ever need help (which I will).

the bard makes a pussy joke:

MALVOLIO (picking up the letter): By my life, this is my lady’s hand these be her very C’s, her U’s and her T’s and thus makes she her great P’s

if you're fucking dissing joshua reynolds and thomas gainsborough i'll see you outside in the car park

i don't speak french, but sometimes i think romance languages will have an easier time reading elizabethan english than lots of modern english people, because of latin in medieval britain.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

HAMLET
Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

OPHELIA
No, my lord.

HAMLET
I mean, my head upon your lap?

OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.

HAMLET
Do you think I meant country matters?

kek

>country matters
Will, leave off, I'm laughing right to death

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nada, vivir

It’s nothing impossible, that’s for sure. I have a harder time deciphering Ulysses than Hamlet, i’ll just say that. Plus Shakespeare is a lot of fun, ofc. That man is an even better tragedian than Racine, which is our best playwright by quite a margin.

unfortunately left off the punchline

....
HAMLET
Do you think I meant country matters?

OPHELIA
I think nothing, my lord.

HAMLET
That’s a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.

OPHELIA
What is, my lord?

HAMLET
Nothing.

"nothing" being shakespearean-era slang for pussy. his audience would have got the joke, even if you don't.

>"nothing" being shakespearean-era slang for pussy. his audience would have got the joke, even if you don't.
Bitch, this is something twelve-year-olds know. Why do you assume I don't get the joke?

And "country matters" is pretty obviously a pun on "cunt."

neither were orlando's verses

Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

Kind of an obscure one, but this line immediately jumped out at me when I first read it.

>OLIVIA: How does he love me?
>VIOLA: With adorations, fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.

How did he think of this shit? Any other writer would have said the literal ways that he loves her. But no, we get "sighs of fire." That says more in 3 words than any long description that could have been given.

Did they call it "nothing" as being ironic? Because pussy destroys everything in your life if you let it.

>That I have worn so many winters out,
>And know not now what name to call myself !
Richard II, in desperation.

'an o thing'

much ado about nothing

i don't disagree that it's expressive
but
it's hyperbole, my dude

This. That whole scene was his best.

The point I was trying to make is that Shakespeare can even surprise outside of the famous quotes and speeches. I never said it was his best, just one that popped out at me when reading.

Macbeth
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? Hah! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

the pun is 'no-thing', as in there's no 'thing' there
but yes, in king lear, the metaphor is nihilizing. at one point lear declares the vagina the source of all strife and misery in the world.