invite 43Ters to share favorite quotes from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets

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“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.”

So true…so true

I believe once you take the time to read a few plays and begin to learn the old lingo, you can really start appreciating Shakespeare’s writing.

There are so many scenes and quotes that I find fascinating. Here is one:

From Cymbeline, Act IV
(Cloten and Guiderius are about to have a fight.)

Guiderius: What’s thy name?

Cloten: Cloten, thou villain.

Guiderius: Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name. I cannot tremble at it. Were it Toad, or Adder, Spider, ‘Twould move me sooner.

Cloten: To my further fear, Nay, to they mere confusion, thou shalt know I am son to th’Queen.

Guiderius: I am sorry for’t; not seeming So worthy as thy birth.

Cloten: Art not afeard?

Guiderius: Those that I reverence, those I fear – the wise; At fools I laugh, not fear them.
Cloten: Die the DEATH! When I have slain thee with my proper hand, I’ll follow those that even now fled hence And on the gates of Lud’s town set your heads. Yield, rustic mountaineer.

when, these days, do you see such a dramatic and poetic dialouge before a fight?