Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

[sandyRoe]

What's your favourite line from the Bards works?

[mike b]

"Kill all the lawyers"
Hen VI pt 2

[Sharingan]

"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world" and if you don't like someone "I do desire we may be better strangers" but my favourite play is Richard III.

[Mrsspagnoli57]

'Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Was ever woman in this humour won? I'll have her...but I will not keep her long...' From my favourite play about my favourite (much maligned) King Richard 111.

[Tups]

He that is thy friend indeed
He will help thee in thy need.
When though sorrow,
He will weep.
When though wake,
He cannot sleep.
Thus to every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe!

Very much like a proverb isn't it. It's stayed in my mind for 40 years!

[Flyhalf]

As beautifully played by Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, almost any exchange in "Much Ado About Nothing", but especially

Beatrice: Against my will, I am sent to bid you come into dinner.
Benedick: Fair Beatrice, thank you for your pains.
Beatrice: I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come.
Benedick: You take pleasure then in the message?
Beatrice: Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point. You have no stomach, signor? Fare you well.
Benedick: Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.

[Jeza]

My favourite quote is not by Shakespeare. It is.....

Those that mind do not matter.

Those that matter do not mind.

Attributed to Dr Seuss but originally said by Bernard Baruch.

[ttfn]

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.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!

[shoota]

Art thou not ashamed to look upon this old grey beard?
Lear to some daughter or other.....