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In honor of the
Bard's birthday, thought I'd toss the question out to you, readers? Do you have a particularly favorite Shakespeare quote? I'll give you a few of mine here (obvious choices, I know) to get the ball rolling:
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt-Measure for Measure
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.-Macbeth
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.-Hamlet
What are yours? What lines o'th'Bards do you say to yourself over and over? Which ones are overrated? Speak, readers!
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There are too many to single out here. However here are a few that I enjoy:
ReplyDelete"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."-Much Ado About Nothing
This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Hamlet
And my favorite Shakespeare stage direction ever:
"Exit, pursued by a bear."-The Winter's Tale.
I can't help but wonder what the heck Will S. was drinking that night.
Oh, I forgot a perennial favorite. "I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit." Sir Andrew Agucheek, Twelfth Night
ReplyDelete"Cool it with a baboon's blood."
ReplyDeleteThis is what one of the witches says in Macbeth. However, I have found it to be a rather literary way of telling people to shut up.