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"

It's Dorothy Parker!

Once more unto the breech dear friends (Henry V)

Usually said when I need an unpleasant job doing around the house/garden😂

Yes, you're right 😳 Can't believe I got two of my favourite Bard works mixed up. Ah, well ... it has been a long day.

This was my comment earlier and for exactly the same reason

I said “do not shake your gory socks at me” to my son when he’d got bloody blisters on his heels after a cross country run and handed me his socks to wash. He looked at me like I was insane - he was sodding studying Macbeth at the time!

I quite like “making the beast with two backs” but having had much chance to use that lately.

Apologies I missed that!

‘No, no, I am as ugly as a bear’ (Midsummer Night’s Dream).

Used of bad photos, unwise haircuts and contemplating myself in the mirror first thing in the morning.

🤣 love it

"Your bum is the greatest thing about you!" Said to a character called Pompey Bum in Measure For Measure.

Haven't checked that I've remembered these correctly, but hopefully near enough:

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it - Macbeth

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? - Twelfth Night

I quite like “making the beast with two backs” but having had much chance to use that lately.

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After changing a dirty nappy- Who would have thought the little baby had so much poo in him.

Thanks for this thread, OP - it inspired me last night to play the Richard III DVD we bought months ago (and still hadn’t watched) - after the King In The Car Park films - and after seeing around the same time a frankly pretty dire modern stage ‘interpretation’ of it locally. Which was one reason why we chose the old Laurence Olivier version.
I hadn’t read or seen it before - goodness, no wonder poor old Richard was cast among the demons, so to speak!

So many favourites quoted, but one of mine I can’t find in my quotations book goes roughly, ‘O would that there were no age between fifteen and thirty, for in between is nothing but stealing, fighting, wronging the ancientry and getting wenches with child.’
IIRC it’s from Henry IV 1 or 2, someone will know.

Having not studied Shakespeare since Henry V for O level back in the Very Dark Ages, I did an OU Shakespeare course some years ago (10 or 12 plays) and thoroughly enjoyed it.

"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes.." It's one of the sonnets and I once had to practice reading it so I remember a little of it.

Every late spring we have east winds round here. I look at the philadelphus, hoping it won't be too battered, and from the back of my head I pull, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May..".

I have an LP by Harry Nilsson. Move our thoughts to 'Nilsson Schmilsson'. The LP is called 'A little touch of Schmilsson in the night'.

upinaballoon I've got the same LP!

My best mate and I often call each other a 'cream faced loon' or 'Lily livered boy' which made us snigger 30 years ago during GCSE McB.

Hoist with his own petard - usu when a politician or similar gets caught out for hypocrisy

Once more unto the breach - as with PP it’s when I am trying to motivate myself to get on with something

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war - jokingly trying to motivate myself into action

I also want to quote Lear if anyone has cheese on toast
This piece of toasted cheese will do’t

"Your bum is the greatest thing about you!" Said to a character called Pompey Bum in Measure For Measure.

That reminds me of the other old (but still funny) joke that actors reputedly use when proclaiming their prowess in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Everybody who has ever seen my Bottom has told me how very splendid it is!"

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All that glisters is not gold.

Nothing at all to apologise for - I was tickled to see someone used the same quote for the same reason.

Henry V is one of my favourite histories along with Richard II

Someone already put this. I just remember it because I 'did' Merchant of Venice for O level.

Sometimes, if the radio is on and someone is mentioning antisemitism, I mutter "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew ears? If you cut him, does he not bleed?". No doubt I've misquoted but the gist is there.