Your favourite line from a Shakespearian play?

Question

Your favourite line from a Shakespearian play?

Answer 1

My favouite line from Shakespear comes in Richard III - something along the lines of. . . ."But I am not made for sportive tricks"  Richard III refering to his lameness.  It is best demonstrated in the link below.

Laurence Olivier - Richard III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thz2EUizC...

The above becomes more humerous by the third viewing - beyond, it becomes almost insane with humour - think William S was trying to say something - "I do not believe what I am writing and Richard III is our rightful King" - something like that.

Answer 2

...look like the flower, but be the serpent underneath it." thats paraphrased,  from macbeth i think

Answer 3

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it, that surfeiting the appetite, may sicken and so die.

Answer 4

John of Gaunt is Richard II's uncle, and praises England in Act 2, Scene 1 of "Richard II."

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 the silver sea,

Which serves it in the office of a wall

Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands,—

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

Answer 5

"Lay on, Macduff. And damned be he who first cries Hold! Enough!" (Macbeth) stuck in the mind from school. Don't know why.

Answer 6

merchant of Venice Shylock's speech: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

well its not a line but a work of art none the less

Answer 7

... the winter of my discontent... be or not to be...

Answer 8

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo; i love that haha

Answer 9

Why, what an a** am I!

(Hamlet II ii 582)

Answer 10

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

followed by...

How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Answer 11

Some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischiefs.

----Julius Caesar

Answer 12

Erm, I don't know if it's from a play - I saw it on one of my teacher's magnets on her filing cupboard -

"Thou smell of mountain goat."

I think it's a great insult.  

:-D

Answer 13

"a rose by any other name is just as sweet"

My fav line :)

Answer 14

"Have at thee boy!"

Romeo & Juliet

Answer 15

a larger, a larger for a horse

Answer 16

I find this quote inspirational.

Lady Macbeth:

We fail?

But s***w your courage to the sticking place,

And we'll not fail.

Macbeth Act 1, scene 7, 59–61

Answer 17

to be or not to be

Answer 18

Let every eye negotiate for itself

And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch

Against whose charms faith melteth in blood

Answer 19

From Hamlet

Spoken By Horatio

" Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Why does the drum come hither? "

Answer 20

"All days are nights to see till I see thee,

And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

(Sonnet 43)

and all sonnet 130.... it's wonderful!

Answer 21

To be or not to be, that is the question!  My personal FAV.

Answer 22

"Romeo, oh Romeo, Where for art thou Romeo."

Answer 23

THE END   and FIN

Answer 24

Romeo, Romeo

where for art thou

Romeo

I DONT F*CKING READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 25

friends, lovers and countrymen.....its frm julius ceaser

Answer 26

"To Be Or Not To Be" ....lol that's the only one i know

♥hope that helped♥

Answer 27

These violent delights have violent ends

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which, as they kiss, consume. -Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene VI

My only love sprung from my only hate.

Too early seen unknown, and known too late.

Prodigious birth of love it is to me,

That I must love a loathed enemy.    

-Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene V (Juliet)

I couldn't really decide, so I put both.

The Passionate Pilgrim is another one of my favorites.

  

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her, though I know she lies,

That she might think me some untutor'd youth,

Unskillful in the world's false forgeries.

Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,

Although I know my years be past the best,

I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,

Outfacing faults in love with Love's ill rest.

But wherefore says my love that she is young?

And wherefore say not I that I am old?

O, Love's best habit is a soothing tongue,

And age, in love, loves not to have years told.

Therefore I'll lie with love, and love with me,

Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be.

Answer 28

I like A midsummer night's dream best.