What are some of your favorite shakesphere quotes?

Question

and what in your opinion do you think they mean?

My favorite is "A rose by any other name is still a rose"

to me it means that people can call you whatever they want "s**t, s***k w***e etc;" but your still you

Answer 1

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind".

Answer 2

'Where is Polonious?'

'In Heaven'

It just makes me laugh, Hamlet would make an amazing comedy

Answer 3

what the other say

Answer 4

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how

infinite in faculties, 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—nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

Answer 5

"h**l hath no fury as a woman scorned"

There are other that I like, but that is always the first to come to mind.

EDIT: I just like the attitude behind it and that so few words really gets the point across that your pissed off!

Answer 6

I was also going to say

"A rose by any other name is still a rose"

but since you took it.. my next favorite would be...

"I think, therefore I am"

it helps me to realize I do exist in this world that is sometimes bigger than me

another good part to add to the rose

"if it were to be called by any other name, would it not smell as sweet?"

it tells me a name is just a name, that doesn't change its basic principle (just like you :P)

Answer 7

freinds romans and countrymen lend me your ears

i come to bury ceasar not to praise him

the evil that men do lives after them

the good is oft interred with there bones

from this day to the ending of the world

but we in it shall be remembered

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 neer so veil

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 on upon saint crispins day

frailety they name is woman

neither a borrower nor a lender be

for loan oft loses both itself and friend

Answer 8

"This above all - to thine own self be true....etc"

Answer 9

To be or not to be that is the question

Answer 10

Did I write that?

Answer 11

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” – William Shakespeare

Answer 12

"some are born great, some acheive greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

Answer 13

"to be, or not to be, that is the question"

Answer 14

mine is....."The world is merely a stage" Meaning;  we all have a part in this world.

Answer 15

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).

I loaned a good friend of mine $1000 and now she avoids me because she is unable to pay it back.  I could use the money now too.  It's been over a year ago that I loaned it to her.

I guess that part means that you lose the money and the friend who doesn't pay you back.

I guess borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry because if a man goes deep in debt, he isn't a good candidate for a husband.

Answer 16

To Be or Not To Be.

Answer 17

In literature, I would have to agree and say,

     "A rose by any other name is still a rose"

In everyday life, I would have to say,

     "I doth haveth to go taketh a poo."

Answer 18

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!!"

Answer 19

Virginia Woolfe - "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

English lit. rarely gets to the point of deep self reference. Yet that is at the core of Chinese and Japanese poetry.

Answer 20

"love all, trust few, do wrong to noone"

Answer 21

"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."  No need to worry about dying, as it will happen to all of us.