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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 · 24/03/2007 08:20

Hamlet

I think affliction may subdue the cheek,
But not take in the mind

Blackduck · 24/03/2007 08:25

Winters Tale
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me

Beetrootccio · 24/03/2007 08:35

no

much ado -the play I am workign on

Blackduck · 24/03/2007 09:06

No? Its not The Winter's Tale? Surely its Perdita??

Beetrootccio · 24/03/2007 09:13

how eird is that - look up one quote and type another -Yes

now I will type the one I meant ot type

you are to absolute

wulfricsmummy · 24/03/2007 09:40

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Homsa · 24/03/2007 09:50

From King Lear:
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'

Quoted during labour - came out more like "as long as I'm still screaming my head off, I'm not dead yet!"

Jessicatmagnificat · 24/03/2007 10:06

How about: "All that glisters is not gold/Often have you heard this told"

eemie · 24/03/2007 10:25

Jess is that Polonius in Hamlet?

'Her voice was ever gentle sweet and low
An excellent thing in woman'

berolina · 24/03/2007 10:29

Eemie - Lear, on the dead Cordelia.

Blackduck · 24/03/2007 11:21

Jess - Merchant of Venice

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:29

There are so many beautiful passages, but I think I most admire the insults...

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:32

Your horrid image does unfix my hair.

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:33

All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats on you fall, and make you
by inch meal a disease!

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:33

His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely.

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:34

A wretched pulling fool, a whining mammet.

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:34

A pox o'your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:36

If you liked those, you'll love this

Greenshoots · 24/03/2007 11:36

I like "thou elvish-marked, abortive rooting hog"

Socci · 24/03/2007 11:37

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fortyplus · 24/03/2007 11:37

OOPS! Copied the wrong link - sorry...

This is the right one

Twiglett · 24/03/2007 12:02

"If we spirits have offended think but this and all is mended"

Greenshoots · 24/03/2007 12:02

midsummer night's dream

Greenshoots · 24/03/2007 12:02

"Tis a naughty night to swim in"

Twiglett · 24/03/2007 12:07

King Lear ??