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 05:36 pm (UTC)(Hrm.... He's not much for speeches but I can drop in "Dreamers often lie.")
Yeah, I drew a lot from Richard III because he's who the character was based on, but Hamlet and MacBeth and Julius Caesar were all goldmines, and Lear is good too. I've got a couple up there, but there are many more.
As flies to wanton boys
Let's away to prison
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of the wolf.
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face
Come not between the Dragon and his wrath
Now, gods, stand up for bastards
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks
I am bound upon a wheel of fire
My cue is villainous melancholy
That way, madness lies
Now look at that--the wealth you've provided me with. (: