If you were a Shakespeare quote

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Measure For Measure is such a magnificent play.
  • pearlmutt
    pearlmutt Posts: 392
    i'd be a pablo neruda poem, just to be ornery . . . :)

    and cause biblio recommended him.

    "I would be "a tale /Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing", of course"

    fins, the sound and the fury!! faulkner, i'm telling you something about you reminds me a faulkner

    no one has ever used an allusion as well as he did with that one, or extended it the way he did, it's really an amazzzzzing novel, imo.
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    I'd also be a Pablo Neruda poem...since I love his poems more than anything else. :)

    But since you're asking Shakespeare...I like this quote from Othello.

    "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
    For daws to peck at."
    William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1

    or the one from Julius Caesar

    "...is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings."
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better .

    Twelfth Night (Act III, Scene I).
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    Can one desire too much of a good thing?

    As You Like It
    - (Act IV, Scene I).
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

    --From As You Like It (II, iv, 53-56)
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death.

    --From Macbeth (V, v, 19)
    Some of you already posted the ending of this quote, so I won't do it again.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

    Hamlet
    (Act III, Scene II).
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown
    Venus & Adonis
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    If I lose mine honour, I lose myself

    Ant & Cleo, Act iii, Sc.4
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    They flattered
    me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my
    beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'
    and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'
    too was no good divinity. When the rain came to
    wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when
    the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I
    found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are
    not men o' their words: they told me I was every
    thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

    King Lear
    Act 4. Scene VI
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

    Much Ado, Act v, Sc.1
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    Joy, gentle friends! Joy, and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!

    Mid N Dr, Act v, Sc.1
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • TouringFan2000
    TouringFan2000 Posts: 305
    If there were reason for these miseries,
    Then into limits could I bind my woes:
    Give way to nature ...
  • vmfury
    vmfury Posts: 1,091
    Why such is love's transgression.
    Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast;
    Which thou wilt propogate, to have it prest
    With more of thine: this love, that thou hast shown,
    Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
    Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
    Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
    Being vext, a sea nourisht with lovers' tears;
    What is it else? a madness most discreet,
    A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
    We’ll meet again, but not yet…not yet. 
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    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
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    Alas, poor world, what treasure hast thou lost!

    Venus & Adonis
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Dreams of Red
    Dreams of Red Posts: 203
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Am I on drugs or has your name changed yet again? :eek:


    I would be "a tale /Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing", of course. ;)


    very fine.

    "thou Art banish-ed."
    i'm a thief... and a liar...

    see Ed's church?--he's breathing fire.....
  • velvet I site
    velvet I site Posts: 192
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

    Much Ado, Act v, Sc.1


    yet?--now that's an awful shame!


    "Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, and I will look on both Indifferently."--Julius Caesar.

    i haven't read all of J.C., or much Shakespeare beyond a bunch of now forgotten sonnets for that matter.. his greatness corrupts my originality, but perhaps someday.....
    change begins with discontent.
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    From Twelfth Night:

    "Go hang yourselves all: you are idle, shallow things, I am not of your element."
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~

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