Favourite/ most used Shakespeare quote

[TwoManyKids]

Feeling a bit mopey after checking the bank balance-need to do something to cheer myself up!
What is your favourite quote from the bard?
My favourite is "To be an idiot full of sound and fury" but my most used is probably "One woe doth tread upon another's heel"

'To thine own self be true.' Lovely Polonius again.

'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so'. It can be useful when trying to put something in perspective.

Polonius gives some good advice in that speech. Although he should have known not to meddle - hiding behind the curtain was a silly mistake.

Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate...
Sonnet 18

And in my house too!

Same! 🤣 Gotta love a bit of King Lear

Also from King Lear: Nothing will come of nothing.

Hope that doesn't remind you of your bank statements OP :)

“Would ‘twere bedtime Hal and all well.”
said before any hospital appointment

I adore ‘Hell is empty. And all the devils are here’. Which is from The Tempest.

I do also love the whole of Macbeth’s soliloquy ‘tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in it’s petty pace from day to day until the last syllable of recorded time… it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing’.

It’s my useless party trick - to be able to quote lines from various Shakespeare plays after millions and millions of years teaching them.

"A little touch of Harry in the night!"

"and something of that jealous complexion"

Love that.

Come what, come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.. very comforting

“reason not the need” is another favourite
We are a family of English teachers/lecturers so there are many favourites.

Above all, to thy own self be true"
I think that's also Polonius

Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and dark desires.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

As seen on the Relationships board...

We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place- and we shall not fail!

Lady M

Screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail.

I somehow imagine this courage to be a blob of chewing gum that you stick onto a post.

“Love Comforteth like sunshine after rain”- Venus & Adonis.
but if you’re my husband “Let’s kill all the lawyers” Henry VI
Apologies to any lawyers out there. We had a mahoosive legal bill a while back.

‘Exit pursued by a bear’ (useful for many scenarios) and whenever someone is having illicit relations on tv, they’re ‘paddling palms and pinching fingers’. Also ‘too hot, too hot, I have tremor cordis on me’ if it’s too warm. Sadly no one in my family knows what I’m talking about - I miss my best friend from school who took Eng Lit A level with me.

The crow makes wing for the rooky wood (MacBeth).
DD is rather keen on To be or not to be.

We also do quite a lot of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
"Hamlet, in love, with the old man's daughter, the old man thinks."
"There isn't any wind. Draught, maybe."
"I don't believe in it anyway." " What?" "England." Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean."

Sorry for the slight detour from the bard.

My favourite is 'stand not amazed'

I also love 'Where the bee sucks, there suck I...'

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes...or

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

But one I say most of all (making sense only to myself) when I am looking for someone or something: "where might that romeo be?" but in the style of mercutio from the baz lurhman version

This one is amazing! don't think I've ever heard it and I need to find an opportunity to slip it into a conversation soon 😁

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"