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09-03-2004 20:58 LPE
5,374 posts	...If you have any favourite quotes from Shakespeare could you please post them for me? I'm researching him for an English assignment and want some really good quotes, i tried to find my own but my net is messing up and i cant really trawl through my complete works of shakespeare! Anyone want to help...please?

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09-03-2004 21:01 Raven88
2,659 posts	"WHy then the worlds' my oyster, with which mine sword shall open." "Ah, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" (Romeo and Juliet)
09-03-2004 21:03 filo
4,508 posts	I thinks this should help! here
09-03-2004 21:04 LPE
5,374 posts	It won't work...could you copy the website up here for me please? And thanks raven.
09-03-2004 21:08 filo
4,508 posts	Sorry for that! here
09-03-2004 21:10 LPE
5,374 posts	Yay thanks sooo much!
09-03-2004 21:10 filo
4,508 posts	Pleasure lol
09-03-2004 21:18 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	To quote my favourite play of all time: "All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages" As You Like It. My favourite romantic Shakespeare: "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." Romeo and Juliet. Tragedy: "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" Romeo and Juliet and a bit of irony: "O, devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with womens tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile." [/i]Othello (I find that one funny, hehe.) "O, Beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." Othello My all time favourite line: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet" Romeo and Juliet. Anyhoo, you;ve got the ones I can remember, that I've loved and have stuck in my head, they may be slightly innacurate by the odd word or two, soz.
09-03-2004 21:34 LPE
5,374 posts	I agree with ya on all of them Ally lol. My favourite play is Macbeth, it's so full of irony that i cant help but love it. But Romeo and Juliet is so beautiful i cant help but love it too! 'There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face.' Macbeth. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought" Sonnet 30 (dont really know why i like that) Thats all i can think of!
09-03-2004 21:40 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	Romeo and Juliet is my favourite tragedy, but As You Like It is my all time favourite, it's just....comin genius, lol, you should read it. I'm obsessed with Shakespeare, I'll never bore of him! lol.
09-03-2004 21:41 rawkerNoNagal
9,981 posts	yea, bill knew his sh!t.
09-03-2004 21:43 LPE
5,374 posts	Yea, ill read it sometime this week. I've heard lots about it...just never got round to actually opening it lol.
09-03-2004 21:43 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	yep! lol
09-03-2004 22:54 THEMariah
2,083 posts	If music be the fruit of love, play on. and I don't remember which play it's from, sorries
09-03-2004 22:57 THEMariah
2,083 posts	oh oh oh Twelfth Night
11-03-2004 20:13 LPE
5,374 posts	I need help... Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, *Or bends with the remover to remove:* O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and it never shaken; It is the star to ever wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alterns not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never write, nor no man ever loved. Could someone explain the part in italics and bold for me please? I'm analyzing it and got stuck1
11-03-2004 20:24 Katka36
11,063 posts	"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." this is my fav and sooooooo many thanks ally youve posted this i didnt know it in english!
11-03-2004 22:04 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	Lol, that's okay hun: 'But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?' The beauty of language, huh? I wish I had the ability to write a sentance half as beautiful.
11-03-2004 22:06 LPE
5,374 posts	Ally...you know you Shakespeare...do you understand what the sentence i highlighted in my last post means?
11-03-2004 22:17 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	sorry I had to reboot....sonnet 16, eh? I'm not enirely sure about the specific line but if you give me 5 mins I'll try and work it out for you
11-03-2004 22:25 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark," He is saying he doesn't see why two 'true minded' people should not marry those minds together forever. Love is not dependant on one thing, it doesn't with change with changing circumstances, or give in when one is unfaithful - in the case of that line. 'Or bends with remover to remover' is a line about that - even if one person strays, the love remains. Like, love goes through tough times but it stays put, hence the line 'O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark' - Basically, it says love is durable and will survive any crisis! Nice sentiment, eh?
11-03-2004 22:30 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	aaaw, you went, I was too late!
11-03-2004 22:30 DeathByMonkeys
24,877 posts	'There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy.' That's my favorite, and I believe it was the ghost in Hamlet.
11-03-2004 22:32 DeathByMonkeys
24,877 posts	After that is "Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field" Which comes from Romeo & Juliet, Act IV, Scene 4, if I'm not mistaken.
11-03-2004 22:36 Masterful_Ally
15,628 posts	I love that line, its deliciousley morbid... now I sound morbid for saying that....meh, whatever. It brings great imagery to mind
11-03-2004 22:37 DeathByMonkeys
24,877 posts	And then there's one of the best ones from the only play that I've ever been in, A Midsummer Night's Dream: "The course of true love never did run smooth" It's Act I Scene I, but I can't remember who says it...I think it's either Lysander or Helena, but I'm not sure. Anyone know?