"Favourite Shakespeare quote" Topic

Happy St George's Day! What's your favourite snippet by The Bard?

"Dogs bark at me as I halt by them."
-Richard III

Glendower. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Hotspur (Henry Percy). Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

"Now is the winter of our discontent"

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother…"

Plus most of Hamlet, Julius Caesar and Macbeth….

All the world's a stage.

It is better in the original Klingon…

"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;

The opening lines of my game of the assault at Harfleur … 'Greyhounds in the Slips'

One lad playing the game at a show complimented how good the speeches were, I pointed out that Shakespeare wrote them, not me … 'awesome' he commented '… and they could almost have been written for this game' …

I'm not sure he was getting it, really …

Phil
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'Cry Havok and let loose the dogs (tentacles?) of War!'….it's loses something in the translation from Slishanese…

Thou didst call me Dog before thou had'st cause.

But since I am a dog, beware my fangs…

"As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods,
They kill us for their sport."

Also

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

King Henry the Sixth, Part II

It is a dangerous quote for me, but I stll like it!

Got to be Henry V pre battle speech!

Or perhaps 'Hark, what light from yonder window breaks, it is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon that is pale and wan with grief'

Dont ask me why, did R+J at school…sigh!

Agree, Henry's pre-battle speech.

"Be not a borrower, nor a lender be.
Do not forget, stay out of debt…" sung by Skipper on Gilligan's Island.

Almost anything from Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing.

"Oh, that I had been writ down an ass!"

"You've not experienced Shakespeare until you've heard it in the original Klingon." -- Chancellor Gorkon, Star Trek VI

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother …'

I suggesting another of my Henry V favourites to demonstrate that this poll would have to be 'vote for your top five'.

just sayin ….

Phil

balls, my liege

ANTONY: He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him.

I have always thought that Julius Caesar was the most "modern" and political.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps at it's petty pace from day to day

O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known.

Julius Caesar: Act 5, Scene 1.

DAUPHIN
For the Dauphin,
I stand here for him. What to him from England?

EXETER
Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt,
And anything that may not misbecome
The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
Thus says my king: an if your father's Highness
Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his Majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer of it
That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
In second accent of his ordinance.

"By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes."

from the Scottish play.

"For my part, I would as lief be thrust through a quick-set hedge as cry pooh to a callow throstle."

Seriously though – why two polls on the same topic?

TMP link

Pat

"Forget it Ming, Dale is with me!"

"For my part, I would as lief be thrust through a quick-set hedge as cry pooh to a callow throstle."

Doesn't sound like the Bard, sounds like nonsense.

Now this is art.

YouTube link

Don't pretend you spotted that without looking it up, Meier – it famously fooled a whole table full of Shakespeare fans!

If you really did, 10 internetz to you sir.

Pat

I didn't look it up but I have encountered pseudo-Shakespeare before (hence the link) so I was better prepared to see it than most people would be.

I'm no expert as these things go but I have watched all the plays at one time or another (the BBC complete series) some several times. There hasn't been a quotation posted yet on either Shakespeare thread I didn't recognize, except yours of course.

Try this one on for size, Meier!

Miller: Oh, God, fair cousin, thou hast done me wrong. (He dies)
Now is steel twixt gut and bladder interposed.
Cook: Oh, saucy Worcester, dost thou lie so still?

Try this one on for size

Well again it's obviously a spoof, gaucherie aside, Worcester and sauce is just too much of a coincidence. I don't know the material.

Is 'Cook' Peter Cook of 'Private Eye' and Dudley Moore fame? Miller would then be Johnathan Miller I suppose, though I know him better through his connections to Peter Brook of whom I am a huge fan, they knocked about together in their youth. British theater is a small world, probably why it's so much better than ours.

I subscribed to 'Private Eye' for many years, until they raised the postage rates. I really should have written them the traditional incoherent letter of protest before dropping my subscription but I couldn't be arsed.

Rupert Murdoch is 106.

Out, out damned spot.

Many of my favorites are already listed.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."

Im with Dances on this on…., "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!"