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lucyinthesky said – Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:35:45 -0000 ( Edit Link )

One quote that stuck with me was the following:

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge?” - Shylock, The Merchant of Venice

These lines were also used in the movie The Pianist, which I really enjoyed. It just goes to show that when it comes down to it, we are all the same.

Another one I do enjoy is when Hamlet says to Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery!” Makes for a good chuckle now and then.

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lechuck said – Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:43:33 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

“If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.” – Falstaff from Henry the IV.

Falstaff’s the best :)
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1. lucyinthesky said – Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:29:13 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  Interesting choice! Why exactly is this one of your favourite quotes?
  
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MayMay said – Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:59:41 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

I just searched up a bunch of Shakespearean quotes.

From The Greatest English Dramatist & Poet, this stood out to me: “For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.”

Odd choice to select, I know. But I’ve been told to be more assertive as a Communication student. Maybe if I were to learn how to formulate more strategic responses, I’d be able to convince my parents to let me get a tattoo.

Haha. I wish!
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oLahav said – Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:01:18 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

I can’t believe nobody mentioned this yet. It’s my all-time favourite Shakespeare quote- “All the world’s a stage, and all the people merely actors”.

I mean, it’s just really true. I see life as a big play sort of thing, and every thing you go through is a scene in which you play yourself as a character. But you play someone a bit different in each scene- when you’re with your family you’re somebody, but at work you’re someone else, and maybe you’re a totally different character when you hang out with your friends. So yeah, the world is one big stage. And if you’re a really good actor and people buy what you have to say, you’ll get far ahead in life.
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1. lucyinthesky said – Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:31:58 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  Very true…also very depressing at the same time, I suppose mainly because it sort of indicates that everyone acts in a way that is almost fake or disgenuine. I guess there`s some sort of sociological aspect to this quote that rings true as well, in terms of people entering various roles according to what they are doing and who they are surrounded by. Or it could also be interpreted as everyone having their part to play in this life that revolves around you (as self-centred as that seems).
  
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saumil said – Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:53:31 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

Quote from Merchant of Venice: “An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart.” O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” can’t share the answer here as i have created the trivia on this :)
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lucyinthesky said – Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:44:45 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind”.
- Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1

I can’t stand it when people use money to replace or buy emotion.
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1. saumil said – Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:15:09 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  If I remember correctly ‘This was said by Ophelia while talking to Hamlet?’ read it back at school :)
  
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lucyinthesky said – Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:49:39 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

@saumil – wow, you have good memory saumil! I had to read Hamlet in high school too, but I barely remember anything now. You’re correct, this line is said by Ophelia when she returns gifts of love given to her by Hamlet.
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1. saumil said – Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:49:39 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  hehe :) i jst rem few things now :)
  
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Gianna25 said – Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:13:43 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

I like this quote

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;”

said by Mark Anthony in his crucial funeral oratory of Caesar.
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lucyinthesky said – Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:09:24 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

@Gianna25: Nice quote! What does he mean by “the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”?

Here’s a good one I recently read: “No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.” – As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 2
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Gianna25 said – Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:47:39 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )
Thank you. I’m not too sure but I guess it implies Anthony’s astuteness. He says this at the very beginning so as to give the feeling that he has not come to praise Caesar. He has come to “inter”(bury) Caesar with his qualities and accentuate his wrongs.

This paradox continues throughout the oratory as he sarcastically presents Caesar’s goodness and contrasts them with Brutus and the other conspirator’s heinous crime.

”...The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones, So let it be with Caesar … The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it … Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all; all honourable men) Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral … He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. ”
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His speech wins over the mob of Rome who had just a little while ago sided with Brutus.
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Yorrick said – Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:26:00 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

This is not the most famous quote, but this one really got to me: “My fate cries out And makes each petty arture in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve. Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me! I say, away!—Go on. I’ll follow thee.” It’s from Hamlet, in the beginning of the play when he first sees his father’s ghost. There are many other clever quotes, many other plays, and many other characters, but these lines hit a nerve. You can look at it on many different levels and angles: a grieving son, a lost soul, or simply someone who has nothing to go on but his intuition, but yet because he feels he has nothing worth keeping from the hands of fortune, he has everything. A sudden burst of strength because he holds larger forces in high regard, not believing himself alone or even his life to be as significant as when guided by fate.

It is interesting that at this point, his passionate intensity keeps him from hesitation caused by the natural instinct to protect one’s own life, yet after the scene with the ghost, this is not the case.

The quote is just powerful all around, I think.

Any thoughts?
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lucyinthesky said – Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:50:15 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

@Yorrick – very interesting. In this passage, what exactly does “arture” mean – I’m assuming it means his arteries?
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Yorrick said – Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:37:15 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

Yep, in fact I think some versions actually use the word artery.
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windwind said – Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:01:44 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

O to be in England now that April’s there

Or something like that.

A memory, a yearning to a place

very powerfull in my eyes
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1. Yorrick said – Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:35:25 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  I like that quote, Windwind. Any particular reason other than it’s beautiful?
  
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Yorrick said – Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:27:00 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

Nope, I take mine back. Here’s a shorter one: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Again, not Shakespeare’s wittiest, but is it not profound? It’s directed at my favorite character, and above all it is a simple fact people tend to forget. It sums up an important truth of our existence. As a Christian, it makes me think of what one of my good friends always says: “It could be possible: I won’t put God in a box.”
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1. lucyinthesky said – Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:42:39 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  That’s an awesome quote!
  
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