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"

Do you think Lady M is saying "We? Fail?" (incredulous) or "We fail" (shoulder shrug) ? I remember this being a big debate in my o'level class (45 years ago )

My favourites are "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" and "Beware the Ides of March" both from Julius Caesar. I know the latter refers to the 15th but I can stretch it out over the whole month in doom-laden tones

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Hamlet).

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heavens of invention! (Opening lines of Henry V, way better than swearing at the remote).

’I can call spirits from the vasty deep’. Owen Glendower in Henry IV part I; often misquoted on its own when getting gin or whisky from the cupboard. But better still is Hotspur’s rejoinder: ‘Why, so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?’

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges - said in my head every time I put the washing out on the rotary line.

Mine is don't let the bastards grind you down - the Latin version

I realise this isn't Shakespeare but thought I'd diversify

I have this on a fridge magnet!

'When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.'

I can call spirits from the vasty deep’. Owen Glendower in Henry IV part I; often misquoted on its own when getting gin or whisky from the cupboard. But better still is Hotspur’s rejoinder: ‘Why, so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?’

Love this.

'My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood'
Goes through my mind when I look back at some stupid thing I did, that I learnt from and wouldn't ever do again

That it should come to this

(from Hamlet)

I often find myself saying or thinking that these days, when I listen to the news.

"our house is hell "... Jessica I'm a merchant of Venice

"The quality of mercy is not strained" Merchant of Venice.

In our school play hundreds of years ago, I was Portia, and my friend was Shylock. I remember a lot of the M of V lol.

"All that glisters is not gold/ Often have you heard this told..."

The Merchant Of Venice.

But bears it out even to the edge of doom

Sometimes when watching the news 'On horror's head horrors accumulate'.

The rest is silence

hamlet. Not very cheerful but thought of most days for some reason.

”full of sound and fury signifying nothing” which sums up the news every day and everything any politician says.

“I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth let no dog bark” (Merchant of Venice, frequently used to describe the pompous)

'Though she be but little she is fierce'

Regarding our small but feisty daughter.

'On fortune's cap I am not the very button' (Hamlet), if I'm feeling a little under the weather.

"There's something rotten in the State of Denmark" (Hamlet) applies to lots of big organisations / platforms these days... ITV, governments, social media, Hollywood in general, etc... this brilliant quote sums up everything that is fake and corrupt about any of the above in just a few simple words...

I always like "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy" when the children at being too loud!

Zita P my high school lit teacher loved “beware the ides of March” and introduced me to it. Now I anticipate it annually. Also “something wicked this way comes” so apt for Halloween

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
Son 18 also has (I think) Summers Lease, and Shall I compare the to a Summers day.

I'm also an English teacher, alas not very pedantic! I googled both but should have looked them up in actual copies of the texts!

TBF half of the quotations on this thread are slightly off. It only really bothers me when the misquote buggers up the metre.

My two favouites...

Once more unto the breech dear friends once more - when there is an onerous task in the offing

Or when a male friend was getting rather interested in a girl at a social function.....

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look