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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:
MarsLady · 23/03/2007 22:53

(Will continue to play in a while. Mini drama going on with one of my mums).

Why didn't I find this thread before. Does my heart good.

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:53

who says about a star dancing in much ado?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:53

Beatrice

rolloneaster · 23/03/2007 22:53

i know why am i even trying to guess this romeo and juliet

"Is this a dagger which i see before me?"

JanH · 23/03/2007 22:54

Oh pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:54

macbeth

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:55

JC again Jan

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:55

well, since noone's guessing it, later on she says ' were i a man, i'd eat his heart in the marketplace'

obviously not having such a happy day.
MUST sleep now.
night all.
great thread. thanks dr d

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:56

work - I don't know that one - pease tell me before you go

JanH · 23/03/2007 22:57

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:58

JC again - !!!

janeite · 23/03/2007 22:58

Julius caesar again

JanH · 23/03/2007 22:58

I only know JC quotes

janeite · 23/03/2007 22:59

Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
She said thou wast my daughter

turquoise · 23/03/2007 23:00

"If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?"

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 23:00

sorry beets - should have made it clearer..
beatrice to benedick in much ado, after claudio has humiliated hero at the altar:
have just looked though. it think its the rather better:

oh god that i were a man, i'd eat his heart in the marketplace.
night

JanH · 23/03/2007 23:01

M of V, turq

ravenAK · 23/03/2007 23:04

The Tempest

'mine arm/is like a blasted sapling withered up'

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 23:05

much ado - and I am working n that at the moment - not got that far yet

monkeytrousers · 24/03/2007 01:48

"with Traquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
moves like a ghost."

monkeytrousers · 24/03/2007 01:48

tarqin's

Beetrootccio · 24/03/2007 06:18

Macbeth

The sun for sorrow will not show his head

monkeytrousers · 24/03/2007 07:57

Romeo and Juliet

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact

Beetrootccio · 24/03/2007 07:59

aha - the dream - saw the Yound Shakespeare Company perfomr it yeaterday

If love makes me forsworn, how shall I swear to love

Blackduck · 24/03/2007 08:17

Love's Labours Lost

'I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams'

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