Shakespeare Quotes...if you please

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"If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story."

Oh my cod that is so sad

Taken from Hamlet. Its Hamlets dying words to his friend Horatio

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove

"To be, or not to be"

That is so ultimate and dark imo

I haue seru'd Prince Florizall, and in my time wore three pile, but now I am out of seruice.

But shall I go mourne for that (my deere)
the pale Moone shines by night:
And when I wander here and there
I then do most go right.
If Tinkers may haue leaue to liue,
and beare the Sow-skin Bowget,
Then my account I well may giue,
and in the Stocks auouch-it.

("I'll live how I please and see what comes.")

bowget = budget = purse

I liked the other one:

Oh that this too too solid Flesh, would melt,
Thaw, and resolue it selfe into 'a Dew':
Or that the Euerlasting had not fixt
his Cannon 'gainst Selfe-slaughter. O God, O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable
Seeme to me all the uses of this world?
Fie on't? Oh fie, fie, tis an vnweeded Garden
That growes to Seed: Things rank, and grosse in Nature
Possesse it merely.


And it ends:
...
It is not, nor it cannot come to good,
But breake my heart, for I must hold my tongue -

which is a phrase that pops into my head fairly often

The only Shakespeare play I ever studied closely was Richard III, and that was in 1972-73 for GCE 'O' Level at school. One of the bits of dialogue I remember is:

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester): "My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there. I do beseech you send for some of them".

No idea why this is so memorable, but many other readers have clearly had the same experience:

https://www.reddit.com/r/shakespeare/co ... ely_for_a/

"...as leaky as an unstanched wench" (useful for laughing at oneself when one is a leaky wench)

"I am the man" (Viola, laughingly or sadly depending on the actor)

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"Play upon me; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass... you cannot play upon me"

From Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Polonius.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.