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

[DrDaddy]

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!"

"and smooth as monumental alabaster"

I don't know yours

but in a similar vien, ie what I remember from 23 years ago

As leaky as an unstaunched wench

Othello

"And now prosperity begins to mellow
And drop into the rotten mouth of death"

To Greensleeves:

Richard the Third.

"Out vile Jelly"

Spot on Wulfricsmummy.

What about:

O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, thaw or resolve itself into a dew.

Pretty easy probably!

Ah but is it sullied or solid? Depends on the edition. Hamlet, anyway.

Who's putting the dog out in this one?

"Out damn Spot!"

and who's the boozer in this:-

"I have yet room for six scotches more."

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Exeunt - Persued by a bear

Stage directions, from A Winter's Tale, I think

"Those lips are made for kissing, lady"
Richard III

"all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"
As you like it

'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'

that's Polonius to Laertes.

oops, better add one : Is this the promis'd end/ or image of that horror ?

have to post my all time fave

'Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. '

Oh fuck me, where can I buy a quill like that guy????????

you can't!!

I know, but doesn't make you ache with envy?????

it really does.can't bear it when people say Shakey is dull!!

"oh ye gods, ye gods, must I endure all this?"

Julius Caesar

Don't know, Martianbishop but gilding the lily is a misquote that has entered the language. I give in - tell me.

How about

'Tis a tale told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury.
Signifying nothing.

Or as Marvin the Paranoid Android said, some centuries later: "Life. Don't talk to me about life."

'For man is a giddy thing'

Beety: Much Ado About Nothing

I tis a great quote isn't it

Macbeth EW.

How about a good feminist one;

"But now I see, our lances are but straws,
our strength as week, our weakness passed compare. What seeming to be most, which we indeed least are"

Did that from memory too

I'd really recommend Othello if you haven't seen it - not Anthony Hopkins one though, that is hilarous!