What is your favourite shakespeare quote?

Question

I'm very interested in Shakespeare and i have recently read his entire works. I have many favorites and would be interested in which quotations you find interesting.

Please do not spare the details

Answer 1

"Where art mine underpants Juliet?"

"I don't kow Romeo, but please take off my bra, you look ridiculous in it!"

Answer 2

'Better to be a witty fool, than a foolish wit'...Twelfth Night

'To be or not to be that is the question'

Answer 3

"'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and h**l itself breathes out contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on."

Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, 380-385.

It feels so vicious and spiteful; Hamlet speaks these lines while lurking in the darkness, contemplating being cruel to his mother to force a confession out of her.

Answer 4

Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2

"A pox on this gout or a gout on this pox; for one or the other is playing h**l with my big toe."

Answer 5

"All the world's a stage and the men and women meerly players."

Answer 6

The Saint Crispian's Day speech in Henry V.

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.

Answer 7

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

"As You Like It"

Answer 8

"Another night of entertaining the proles over, let's go down the Lamb & Flag."

Answer 9

"To be or not to be.  THAT IS THE QUESTION"

combined with

"so like the king THAT was and IS THE QUESTION of these wars."

to get:

"To be or not to be... so like the king that was and is the question of these wars."