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Favourite Shakespeare Quotations.....Guess the quote, then add a new one....

259 replies

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 08:54

Looks like I inadvertently started a Shakespeare quotations thread on the Film quotes...Have been challenged by Worktostaysane. Come on all you English scholars! Here's an easy one to start us off:

"Kiss me Kate!"

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Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 08:59

"Taming of the Shrew"!

How about:

"...If it be not now, tis to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all".

I love this game!!!

sassy · 23/03/2007 09:01

Macbeth
'Here comes the Countess. Now heaven walks on earth'.

(Clue, I sent this quote by text to mi sil this monday when she gave birth to a baby girl named Olivia.)

Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:02

Sassy - no, it's not from Macbeth. I don't recognize your quote, but the clue suggests: Twelfth Night?

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:03

Jessicat - that's Hamlet I believe!

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turquoise · 23/03/2007 09:03

Twelfth night?

"Thou, Nature, art my Goddess"

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:04

12th Night

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The petty follies that themselves commit

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:06

mine was to sassy - one underneath me is King Lear

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:07

Beetroot - Merchant of Venice

"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."

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sassy · 23/03/2007 09:07

Oh god yes, Hamlet. Of course.

turquoise · 23/03/2007 09:08

Othello.

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

sassy · 23/03/2007 09:08

DrD -must be Othello.

"Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises"

Scootergirl · 23/03/2007 09:08

Othello?

Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:08

Dr Daddy - yes!

Turquoise - give me a clue!

Beetrootccio - is it "Midsummer Dream"?

Damn, these are hard!

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:09

Othello

Love, friendship, charity are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time

turquoise · 23/03/2007 09:09

Sassy - Tempest?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:09

min to Dr Daddy

sassy · 23/03/2007 09:09

Turq -yes

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:10

Beetroot - well done!

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DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:10

Ok. Let's all try to guess Beetroot's next one.

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Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:11

How about : "Screw your courage to the sticking place/And we'll not fail"

turquoise · 23/03/2007 09:11

Jess - several parts (clue)

"Dost think, because thou art virtuous,
There shall be no more cakes and ale?"

{my favourite quote btw}

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:11

Sorry. Didn't realise 2 people already had it...this is too quick!

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Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:12

Tueq - must be Falstaff! One of the Henry's but I don't know which one?!?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:12

My salad days,
When I was green in judgement

and

Let's have one other gaudy night

ipanemabunny · 23/03/2007 09:13

Macbeth? (courage one)