Shakespeare Quotes Game

[The_Reaper]

Well, it's time the Bard gets a game devoted to him.

Rules:

Post a quote, from the play (by any character) listed in the post above. (For the purpose of this game, I'll allow the Sonnets and other works from Shakespeare, not just the plays)

I'll use a quote from King Lear:

Edmund:
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for the bastards!


Othello

 

[rednzkiwi]

Othello:
Rude am I in my speech,
And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace

DEMETRIUS

 

[ozguy]

DEMETRIUS: Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right. (Act 1 Sc 1 "A Midsummer Night's Dream")

Next character: SHYLOCK

 

[cbgymguy]

I use Shakespeare a lot when writing, always start with a quote!

So here are a few of my favourites


The time is out of joint; O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right.
- Hamlet, act 2, sc1


But how is it
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
-The Tempest: Act 1. Sc. 2


I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
- Macbeth. Act 2. Sc 1


O world, world, world! - thus is the poor agent despised.
O traitors and bawds, how earnestly you are set a work
and how ill requited. Why should our endeavour
be so desired and the performance so loathed?

-Troilus and Cressida: Act 5, Sc 10

 

[rednzkiwi]

I am a Jew.
Hath not a Jew eyes?
Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections,
passions; fed with the same food,
hurt with the same weapons,
subject to the same diseases,
healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer,
as a Christian is? 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, shall we not revenge?

Capulet

 

[ozguy]

CAPULET:

Go to, go to;
You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?
This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.
Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:
Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!
I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!

"Romeo and Juliet" Act 1, Sc 5


FALSTAFF

 

[ozguy]

BUMP!!

Doesn't anybody want to play????

 

[luminum]

FALSTAFF: If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world!

Tamora!

 

[The_Reaper]

A Lover's Complaint? I'm not familar with that character....

But to prevent this game from dying prematurely, I'll post another quote:

Now is the winter of our discontent,
Made glorious summer by this son of York.

Richard III


Next quote:

Prospero (The Tempest)

 

[ozguy]

PROSPERO:
If I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends, for I
Have given you here a third of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; who once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love and thou
Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
And make it halt behind her.

(The Tempest Act 4 Sc1)


CLEOPATRA

 

[The_Reaper]

O sun,
Burn the great sphere thou movest in!
darkling stand
The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,
Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help;
Help, friends below; let's draw him hither.


Next Quote:

Edgar (King Lear)

 

[ozguy]

EDGAR :

I heard myself proclaim'd;
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,
That guard, and most unusual vigilance,
Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,
I will preserve myself: and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;
Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;
And with presented nakedness out-face
The winds and persecutions of the sky.
The country gives me proof and precedent
Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
Strike in their numb'd and mortified [bare] arms
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
And with this horrible object, from low farms [service],
Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!
That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.

(King Lear Act 2 Sc 3)



BRUTUS

 

[The_Reaper]

A million apologies..... I did say any poem, play, sonnet...I have to admit, it must have slipped my mind..Therefore, I shall post your quote:

Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.



And one from Brutus as well:

Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd more than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. So Caesar may; then lest he may, prevent.


Keeping with the Caesar theme:

Julius Caesar

 

[ozguy]

CAESAR:

Et tu, Brute?-- Then fall, Caesar!

(Julius Caesar Act 3 Sc 1)



PUCK

 

[The_Reaper]

O what fools these mortals be...



Lysander

 

[ozguy]

LYSANDER :

My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,
I cannot truly say how I came here;
But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,
And now do I bethink me, so it is,--
I came with Hermia hither: our intent
Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,
Without the peril of the Athenian law.

(Act 4 Sc 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream)



LADY MACBETH

 

[The_Reaper]

Out damn spot, out!


Aaron (Titus Andromicus)

 

[Yuki Sohma]

Titus Andronicus

AARON: Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.


GLOUCESTER (Richard III)

 

[The_Reaper]

Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: Here Clarance comes.


Next Quote:

Puck, A Midsummers Night Dream

 

[Yuki Sohma]

A Midsummers Night Dream

Puck: Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down.
I am feared in field and town.
Goblin lead them up and down.

Viola - Twelfth Night