Your Favourite Shakespeare Quote.

[chalice]

Exit stage left...pursued by a Jibbler.

[MagicNakor]

I don't think that's anything the Bard wrote. ;)

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[chalice]

Magic, it was a parody of the most famous stage direction in dramatic history. The Winter's Tale...exit stage left...pursued by a bear. ;)

Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past;
For thy records and what we see do lie,
Made more or less by your continual haste.
This I do vow, and this shall ever be,
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.

[MagicNakor]

I'm very well versed in Shakespeare. ;) I was just poking fun.

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[chalice]

Fair enough. Consider it poked. :)

Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chop fallen?

[Skweeky]

Easy one:

'What are you reading?'
'Words, words, words...'

[Woxhol]

Still embedded in my mind...

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

[nahan]

My favorite part from "Taming of the shrew" not really a quote but here goes

Uhh...

PETRUCHIO
Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
KATHARINA
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
PETRUCHIO
My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
KATHARINA
Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies,
PETRUCHIO
Who knows not where a wasp does
KATHARINA
In his tongue.
PETRUCHIO
Whose tongue?
KATHARINA
Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
PETRUCHIO
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

[hobbes]

I think the woman doth protest too much- I think from "The Taming of the Shrew".

[MagicNakor]

Hamlet, actually.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - Gertrude

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[nahan]

Taming of the shrew rules !

PETRUCHIO
Verona, for a while I take my leave,
To see my friends in Padua, but of all
My best beloved and approved friend,
Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.
Here, sirrah Grumio; knock, I say.

GRUMIO
Knock, sir! whom should I knock? is there man has
rebused your worship?

PETRUCHIO
Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.

GRUMIO
Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what am I, sir, that
I should knock you here, sir?

PETRUCHIO
Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.

GRUMIO
My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock
you first,
And then I know after who comes by the worst.

PETRUCHIO
Will it not be?
Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;
I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.

He wrings him by the ears

GRUMIO
Help, masters, help! my master is mad.

PETRUCHIO
Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!

[tianup]

ah, yes:


I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this, killing myself,
to die upon a kiss.


Othello

[chalice]

Thanks guys.... keep it up.

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth,
foregone all custom of exercises, and, indeed,
it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth,
seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,
look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof,
fretted with golden fire...why it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapors. 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 and 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?

Hamlet (on a good day).

[kooky_kramer]

what do you people (those who have posted and are shakespear fans) think about it being included as a major part of senior schooling (in australia anyway) ?? I mean if you dont understand shakespear, you fail school.

[chalice]

Kooky, personally I think it's a good thing.
Shakespeare is also on the curriculum in the UK but not to the intensity he once was.
Shakespeare provides us with a deeper understanding of our own language.
Not only that but he gives us scintillating glimpses of what it is to be human.
He gives us an appreciation of art and culture while remaining profoundly moral and truthful.
To know and love Shakespeare is to know and love life.
I can't blame school for inflicting that on me.

"We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms,
which the wise powers deny us for our own good".

Anthony and Cleopatra. act ii, scene 1

[MagicNakor]

Originally posted by kooky_kramer@3 June 2003 - 12:01
what do you people (those who have posted and are shakespear fans) think about it being included as a major part of senior schooling (in australia anyway) ?? I mean if you dont understand shakespear, you fail school.
Shakespeare.

I think the education system is flawed; people who cannot comprehend basic reading or put together a coherent sentence are graduating. They shouldn't.

And yes, they should teach Shakespeare. ;)

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[kooky_kramer]

is shakespeare part of the school curriculum in other countries ??

[MagicNakor]

I believe it's part of the English program for any English-speaking country. Perhaps even any European country; there were quite a few people from other countries saying they did Shakespeare in school.

Note: When I say English-speaking, I mean a country that has English as its offical language. ;)

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[NotoriousBIC]

It's part of the English program here in the Netherlands too. (anyway, 7 years ago)


"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" - from 'Julius Ceasar'

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" - from 'Taming of the Shrew'

[Oregonian]

I have one:

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Julius Ceaser

[squishyboboball]

Lemme get my copy of Othello out, Emelia has one of the best little rants towards the end.

"But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
Or scant our former having in despite;
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too: and have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so."

And Feminism wouldn't come into being until the 1960's. Hows that for forward thinking?

[MagicNakor]

Feminism has been around way before the 1960s. ;) The woman's movement was called that when women petitioned for the right to vote, but the sentiment had been around for ages. And the United States tends to be behind on granting social freedoms to people.

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[Riddler]

"But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

The coolest thing; I managed to remember that line in Verona, under Juliet's balcony ( so they claim ;) ) while my new bride looked on with great delight. B)

[Oregonian]

Originally posted by Riddler@18 June 2003 - 04:04
"But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

What does these lines means ?

[OcramC]

oh dont, im doing shakespeare at the moment

[Rat Faced]

"Is this a Dagger I see before me; the handle towards my hand?"


I agree with Skweeky.

Hated it at school, and put me off it for life.

One day, maybe i'll try reading it again or watching it on TV...but since then, and now; I avoid it like the plague ;)

[J'Pol]

I am typing this from memory, thirty years ago, so apologies for any errors.

Now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer by this son of York
and all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

The opening soliloquy from Richard III

As I recall Richard walked out of a room in one of the Henry plays, when the war was over. He walks into another room and starts dick 3 with this soliloquy. In effect it is a sequel. He is unhappy that the war is over as he is an ugly hunchbacked bar steward and normal life doesn't suit him as it is all about singing and dancing and fun. As it transpires this was almost certainly historical nonsense.

Bear in mind that these were plays. They were never intended to be read, they were intended to be watched. So reading them is the equivalent of reading a screenplay.

To teach children Shakespeare they should be shown the play, even if only on film. Get the experience as the bard intended it.

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Oregonian+20 June 2003 - 21:10--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Oregonian @ 20 June 2003 - 21:10)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Riddler@18 June 2003 - 04:04
"But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

What does these lines means ? [/b][/quote]
"Hey, what&#39;s that light I see in that window? Ah, the window is the East, and Juliet is the sun&#33;"

It&#39;s a rather lovely bit of imagery.

[The Flying Cow]

Cry 'Havok', and let loose the dogs of war! (Julius Caesar)

[iLOVENZB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOECEEmnl-U

[SonsOfLiberty]

Not Shakespeare but good quotes :lol:

"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald Reagan

"When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point." - Barack Obama

"I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it." Andy Warhol

[spekis]

"To be or.." nah im no saying that