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Open Thread: The Bard's Best Ever Lines

Posted: 23/04/2012 08:22 Updated: 24/04/2012 12:32

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He did more than any other writer in history to shape the English language - but what's your favourite Shakespeare quote?

To celebrate the bard's 448th birthday, we want to know what line means most to you from his plays or poems.

To get things started, here's a random scattering of our own:

"O, it is excellent. To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous. To use it like a giant." - Measure For Measure
"Brevity is the soul of wit" - Hamlet
"What's past is prologue" - The Tempest
"When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." - Julius Caesar

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He did more than any other writer in history to shape the English language - but what's your favourite Shakespeare quote? To celebrate the bard's 448th birthday, we want to know what line means mos...
He did more than any other writer in history to shape the English language - but what's your favourite Shakespeare quote? To celebrate the bard's 448th birthday, we want to know what line means mos...
 
 
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molieredude
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07:47 PM on 05/21/2012
"If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek" HENRY V
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Morag Gaherty
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04:16 PM on 04/29/2012
What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living? (of course Benedick and Beatrice were in love!!)
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alisonebruce
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10:46 PM on 04/23/2012
"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 (which I was first introduced to, as a child, via Gilligan's Island).
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antikakistocrat
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06:22 PM on 04/23/2012
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war, -- Marc Antony (Julius Caesar).
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senseandnonsense
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04:08 PM on 04/27/2012
Hey! Isn't that Klingon?
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tdempsey
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06:09 PM on 04/23/2012
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - Portia - The Merchant of Venice
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premulu
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05:27 PM on 04/23/2012
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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SteveMielczarek
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05:01 PM on 04/23/2012
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
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SteveMielczarek
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04:55 PM on 04/23/2012
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare
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Susan Chast
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04:36 PM on 04/23/2012
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

(As You Like It Act 2, scene 1, 12–17)
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Stuart Kenneth Allison
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04:31 PM on 04/23/2012
"There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned." Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.
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Frans Robyns
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04:04 PM on 04/23/2012
"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
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bstones454
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02:28 PM on 04/23/2012
This sugared sonnet reveals why Shakespeare thought of love as only 'fair' kind' and 'true'
O, let my looks be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more expresse'd.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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sgeppy118
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01:22 PM on 04/23/2012
Not a quote from Sir William (Thomas Gray's, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard") but I think it has relevance for this day in age...

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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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01:14 PM on 04/23/2012
GOPer philosophy:

Thou marvel'st at my words: but hold thee still.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
--Macbeth
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oceanwomanart1
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01:11 PM on 04/23/2012
"This above all, to thine own self be true"
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