My mistress's eyes
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cyranoSo it's not Friday yet but here I am asking questions.
I have this character who tends to quote Shakespeare during his psychopathic episodes. (He was raised in a basement. There were a lot of books, and not much else.)
I'm trying to build a nice stable of references that I can draw on to use without having to hunt through Bartlett's or having to rely on just having read Antony and Cleopatra and remembering the perfect line I just heard. So I'm coming to you, my LJ braintrust, and asking for your contributions. In retrospect, I have quite a few, but I'm always interested in others' perspective. (If you would, quote me the play so that I can find the reference and get some context.)
Shake not thy gorey locks at me.
Screw your courage to the sticking point.
Nothing in his life became him like... the leaving of it.
Cowards die many times before their death.
Out, out, brief candle.
The lady doth protest too much.
There's the rub.
Our little life is rounded by a sleep.
Were it not that I had bad dreams.
A hit. A very... palpable hit.
Dead for a ducat.
There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Dogs bark at me as I halt by them.
I am fortune's fool.
True apothecary, thy drugs are quick.
I am determined to prove a villain.
My kingdom for a horse.
Thus I clothe my naked villainy.
So wise so young, they say do never live long.
I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus.
I am constant as the northern star.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen.
Think him as a serpent's egg. // Kill him in the shell.
Cry havok, and let slip the dogs of war.
Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
What's past is prologue.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks.
As flies to wanton boys.
Not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Let's away to prison.
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.
The portrait of a blinking idiot.
I have this character who tends to quote Shakespeare during his psychopathic episodes. (He was raised in a basement. There were a lot of books, and not much else.)
I'm trying to build a nice stable of references that I can draw on to use without having to hunt through Bartlett's or having to rely on just having read Antony and Cleopatra and remembering the perfect line I just heard. So I'm coming to you, my LJ braintrust, and asking for your contributions. In retrospect, I have quite a few, but I'm always interested in others' perspective. (If you would, quote me the play so that I can find the reference and get some context.)
Shake not thy gorey locks at me.
Screw your courage to the sticking point.
Nothing in his life became him like... the leaving of it.
Cowards die many times before their death.
Out, out, brief candle.
The lady doth protest too much.
There's the rub.
Our little life is rounded by a sleep.
Were it not that I had bad dreams.
A hit. A very... palpable hit.
Dead for a ducat.
There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Dogs bark at me as I halt by them.
I am fortune's fool.
True apothecary, thy drugs are quick.
I am determined to prove a villain.
My kingdom for a horse.
Thus I clothe my naked villainy.
So wise so young, they say do never live long.
I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus.
I am constant as the northern star.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen.
Think him as a serpent's egg. // Kill him in the shell.
Cry havok, and let slip the dogs of war.
Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
What's past is prologue.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks.
As flies to wanton boys.
Not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Let's away to prison.
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.
The portrait of a blinking idiot.
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Date: 2008-04-25 03:06 am (UTC)The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault; and grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honorable men...
I saved a whole list from Othello:
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd.
Here's a lovely bit of Iago talking that sounds appropriate to your fellow, Act 1 scene ii:
Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contriv'd murder.
O, I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall throw it to.
--Othello, act 4, scene i
But why should honour outlive honesty?
Let it go all.
--Othello, act 5, scene ii