Favourite lines from Shakespeare

[glenshane]

…and it’s not as if we didn’t already have a Shakespeare thread, one started with an eloquence and learnedness so sadly lacking in more recent offerings.

[anon67715551]

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Shakespeare thinking of @glenshane as he penned the line.

[Breaking_my_balls]

Fucketh Tipp

[glenshane]

Still, I’d like to help you out, because that’s the kinda guy I am.

I think this is a fine bit of imagery and personification

“Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care”

The idea of sleep easing or fixing all life’s little stresses and worries is hardly original, but presenting them as a torn or tattered sleeve in the process of being mended is strangely effective…and tender I suppose (I’m sure @carryharry will concur)
I forgive Shakespeare for any ‘ravell’d/unravelled’ disputes that may occur on tfk

[padjo]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

that’s mine, good old Hamlet

[TreatyStones]

Hamlet : "oh look at me, what a great lad I am, quoting Shakespeare "

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

“I would like to thank the owners and board of Leicester City for giving me the opportunity to manage this fantastic club”

[glenshane]

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Some amount of googling going on to find a favourite line

[iron_mike]

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking

[Julio_Geordio]

It’s my field. It’s my child.I nursed it. I nourished it. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it.

[Ashman]

None of them were . Oxfordian

[myboyblue]

Drink

[Ashman]

[farmerinthecity]

Polonius was the original cute hoor. To his son Laertes:

‘Lend many thine ear but few thine mouth’.

[anon67715551]

Fair play to Polonius.

The modern version reads “lend them thine wisdom but never thine drill/chainsaw/angle grinder, for, as verily as there be shite in a goose thou is highly unlikely to see them in working order ever again”

[croppy_boy]

@backinatracksuit

And he only remembers the first few lines

The first lines of Shakespeare I ever studied.

They’ve stayed with me.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@croppy_boy

@backinatracksuit

And he only remembers the first few lines

The first lines of Shakespeare I ever studied.

They’ve stayed with me.

It’s a tribute both to Shakespeare and the wonderful English teachers up and down the country how much Shakespeare actually stuck with lads. In my case Frank Farrelly and John Crowe.

[balbec]

True. The kids probably only read the summaries these days.

[Julio_Geordio]

Some phenomenal waste of time though.

“Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?”