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

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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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LadyMacbeth · 23/03/2007 10:01

Midsummer Night's Dream even

sassy · 23/03/2007 10:12

Julius Caesar.

clerkKent · 23/03/2007 12:56

I don't have time to stick around, so I thought I would just butt in with this: I have a t-shirt that says (with appropriate picture) "two sheep, perchance two bream".

Bink · 23/03/2007 13:04

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

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Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 14:10

hmm yeah - not sure - possibly a sonnet!

Talkers are not good doers

yeahinaminute · 23/03/2007 14:14

No was those two fella's in verona !

Richard the turd ?

mammaduck · 23/03/2007 14:18

Is "Thou art a votary to strong desire" Measure for Measure?

Talkers are not good doers - no idea? Polonius's advice to Laertes in Hamlet? Not convinced by that though.

i've always loved "There was a star danced, and under that was I born."

Any takers?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 14:21

Much ado - i am working on that at the moment!!

good mother, do not marry me to yond fool

mammaduck · 23/03/2007 14:23

Bingo Beetroot!

yours is Merry Wives of Windsor.

right, racking brains for another quotation now...

mammaduck · 23/03/2007 14:25

Beetroot - where's "Talkers are not good doers" from? thread layout slightly confusing - not sure what the answer is!

Here's another:

"We came into the world like brother and brother,/ And now let's go hand in hand, not one before the other."

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 20:04

Richard third Mamma.

Comedy of Errors - workied on htat one to

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workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 21:19

'i'm a woman's man...'
comedy of errors

-'Where is your husband?
-I hope in no place so unsanctified where such as thou mayst find him'

janeite · 23/03/2007 21:29

Lady Macduff in "Macbeth"

janeite · 23/03/2007 21:30

Here's mine -

"Now by saint Peter's church and saint Peter too he will not make me there a joyful bride"

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 21:48

is that R&J?

snipersmum · 23/03/2007 22:00

I have 2 - both prob v easy for you clever laydeez. 'I was adored once too', and 'frailty thy name is woman'

janeite · 23/03/2007 22:04

yep worktostay. Snipers your 2nd one is Hamlet but can't think of the 1st.

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:06

the first is sir toby in 12th night. one of my faves:

'in sooth i know not why i am so sad. it wearies me, you say it wearies you, and such a want-wit sadness it makes of me that i have much ado to know myself'

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:06

i was adored once too - 12th night

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:07

frailty thy name is woman' - Hamlet

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:08

work - M OF Venice - going to see it on Wednesday

GreenandBlackOtter · 23/03/2007 22:08

'out vile jelly' Easy!

monkeytrousers · 23/03/2007 22:09

Oh I just watched Othello the other night - bring it on!