Readers Respond: Your Top Shakespeare Quotes

We could only scratch the surface in our list of the top 10 most famous Shakespeare quotes – and I’m sure you have got some gems to share with other readers.

Well, here’s your chance – share your favourite Shakespeare quotes and tell us why you love them.

Famous Shakespeare Quote

The choices in the main article are all good but certainly not among the Shakespearean Poet's best in all cases. Just to cite three omitted that I champion every day, "Who is here so base that would be a bondman"? "O brave new world". "The time is out of joint". Enough said.

—Guest Robert

We are such stuff. . . .

My favorite, which I'm surprised didn't make the top ten, is Prospero from "The Tempest" -- we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. I also love Lady Macbeth's line "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" and Puck's final speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended.....

—Guest Queen Margaret

sunshine

the sun shined brightest when tho was beside me till we meet again my heart shall be dark will blackness of desire for your soul till the sight of you shall restore the sun shine in my soul.

—Guest carol

Shakespeare quotes

Among my favourites are: 'The crow makes wing to the rooky wood' etc (Macbeth) 'Sleep.. knits up the ravelled sleeve of care' 'Orhave we eaten of the insane root that takes the reason prisoner' (Macbeth) 'Thus out of season, threading dark eyed night' (King Lear) 'Out vile jelly, where is thy lustre now?' (King Lear) 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow' (Macbeth) 'There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face' (Macbeth) 'Trifles light as air...' (Othello) 'Hell is empty and all its devils are here' (The Tempest) 'I know not seems' (Hamlet) 'Playthings are we to the Gods: they kill us for thier sport' (King Lear) 'There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy' (Hamlet) 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so' (Hamlet) 'Now Gods stand up for bastards' (King Lear) 'Now is the winter of our discontent..' (Richard III) 'The quality of mercy is not strained' (The Merchant of Venice And many more!!

—Guest Brabantio