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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!"

OP posts:
Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:23

yes yes Lear (duh) and I was spent 2 years workingon that ploay

yeahinaminute · 23/03/2007 09:23

Beet - Measure for measure

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:23

yes T and C

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:24

Tomorrow and tomorrow is Macbeth (can do that one off by heart if you like)

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:24

yes you are right M for M.

now off to a Shakespeare workshop

love this game

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:25

Yes, it's Lear, sorry - this is too fast.

yeahinaminute · 23/03/2007 09:25

He's here in double trust

Waswondering · 23/03/2007 09:25

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DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:26

Is that another Macbeth one, Yeahiam?

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:26

Macbeth talking about Duncan staying in their castle?

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:27

I have to do some work - can I come and play again later?

LadyMacbeth · 23/03/2007 09:27

Yeah - Macbeth

The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool

Roskva70percentcocoa · 23/03/2007 09:29

Anthony and Cleopatra?

yeahinaminute · 23/03/2007 09:30

Ant and Cleo

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent

Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:31

I have to go as my daughter is waking up, but will be back to play again soon. Have fun.....

LadyMacbeth · 23/03/2007 09:32

Yeah - I love that quote. From Much ado I believe.
A&C - correctomundo.

Easy one: Get thee to a nunnery

yeahinaminute · 23/03/2007 09:36

Hamlet

You're good lady Mac!

Right must do some work - but will keep this on the back burner !

sassy · 23/03/2007 09:38

LadyM - Hamlet

'The country proverb known that every man shall have his own.
Jack shall have Jill, naught shall be ill..'

AnneJones · 23/03/2007 09:40

Is that Twelfth Night?

ipanemabunny · 23/03/2007 09:40

I love screw your courage to the sticking place, have never forgotten that one nor:

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

Roskva70percentcocoa · 23/03/2007 09:43

how about 'haste pays haste and leisure answers leisure'?

funnypeculiar · 23/03/2007 09:45

LadyMacbeth - Hamlet "(Woulds't thou be a breeder of sinners"is one of my faves!)

"Sir believe this, I had rather give my body than my soul"
(Haven't read thread, so appologies if a repeat)

funnypeculiar · 23/03/2007 09:47

Sassy - Much Ado?
Impemenabunny - must be Lear?

sassy · 23/03/2007 09:57

No one's got mine yet.

puck says it.

LadyMacbeth · 23/03/2007 10:00

Must be from Midsummer's nights dream then Sassy!

"Beware the ides of March."