another macbeth quote....help explaining.?
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The speaker is lamenting having done something or considering something that will rob him/her of the joys of old age. These joys include honor, love, obedience, multitudes of friends. Instead, he/she will receive silent curses from people for a long time, honor spoken falsely from others, and another day of living, which many people would be pleased to have in itself. At the same time, people feeling so depressed, such as the speaker, might be happy and simultaneously unhappy for living another day.
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Romeo is trying to purchase poison from a chemist.  The chemist knows what Romeo intends to do with the poison and his oath to never intentionally bring harm to another prevents him from selling it to Romeo.\n\n"Your clothes are worn and tattered, yet you would prefer to live.  You are hungry and need to provide for yourself, but you have a hard time doing so.  The world will not help you with these, nor make you rich.  I'm offering you a great deal of money for the poison; just make the sale."\n\nIn simpler terms:\n\n"Overlook your morals just this once.  I'm offering a lot of money and you need it.  Look to your own welfare and don't worry about mine."
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my quote that i have always used and "owned- :) " since high school is\n~Amor Vincit Omnia~\n\n---it means Love Conquers All, plus it sounds really cool and looks pretty when it is written.the end.\n\n\n---P.S.!!! --Don't even think about stealing it!!! It is mine only! :)
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Harry Potter and the prisoner of azkaban\n\n"Something wicked this way comes"\n\nthe quote was originally found in Macbeth
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In one of her soliloquay's, Lady Macbeth says "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor."  He was Thane of Glamis, and then became Thane of Cawdor.  I believe his castle was Glamis Castle at Inverness.
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Dear girl, first of all you need to be specific - is it Shakeapeare you are talking about?\n\nSecondly, it's Mark Antony in Shakespeare (not Antonio).\n\nBrutus gives a logical, unemotional speech winning the crowd over to the suggestion of making Brutus the new Caesar. Antony halts the crowd's support for the conspirators with a masterful speech that plays on the crowd's emotions.\n\nBrutus' speech was full of authoritative words while Antony appealed to the mob's emotions. While Brutus tried to show Caesar in anegative light, Antony tried to show Brutus is a very postive light. The use of rhetoric is also potrayed beautifully.
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Lol, where do you go to school person that answered the question first.  You put it paranthesis, ( Like this ), and page number like if I wanted to quote Shakespear from Macbeth ( Shakespeare, 45 ). But the book Macbeth must be in References or Works Cited.
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Ask Shakespeare, its his line (the answer is yes by the way.  A rose is a rose, call it whatever you want)
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Yes, it is from "Macbeth"  I,7 lines 60ff. \nThe image is interesting. Lady Macbeth uses a simile from music, namely playing the lute. The strings of such an instruments are tightened by screwing the pegs to which they are fastened. This is to say that Macbeth must screw his courage like a lute-string until it is taut and has reached its 'sticking-place'.
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try checking out this link"\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/macbeth.htm
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The basic meaning is as others have said, but what the expression ALSO means is that people sometimes get confused and MISquote!\n\n"Gild the lily" is based on a line in Shakespeare's play, The Life and Death of King John (Act IV, Scene ii).   \n\nBUT that's not how the line actually goes!   What Shakespeare wrote was subtler:\n\n''To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."\n\nWe still get the basic sense --that this is a criticism of the idea of trying to improve on something in the very area in which it most perfect (beautful, valuable).    But  why choose the image of putting GOLD on a lily? (not to mention the fact that gilding requires that the metal be melted, which would destroy the lily!)\n\nSo why DO we misquote it?   I think the answer is simple -- the misquotes creates a catchy internal rhyme ("il" in both words) not present in "paint the lily".   So the catchier SOUND overcomes the better SENSE.    Andmaybe the absurdity of putting gold on a lily caught people's imaginations?
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There are many quotes I really love, but here are some which hold a lot of meaning:\n"Life's but a walking shadow,a poor player, \n That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,\n And then is heard no more;it is a tale\n Told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,\n Signifying"  (Macbeth,Shakespeare)-this shows that in this world,we are all only actors with a part to play\n\n"'Beauty is Truth,truth beauty'-that is all\n Ye know on earth and all ye need to know" \n(Ode on a Grecian Urn,John Keats)\n"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"\n(Endymion-A Poetic Romance,John Keats)-the only thing we really appreciate on earth is beauty and its power to move us.The above 2 quotes give the real essence of eternal beauty\n  \n"Youth owns,with pleasure owns,the Passions' sway,\n But sage Experience only comes with years"\n(Quae Nocent Docent,Coleridge)-this only portrays the impulsiveness of youth vs the wisdom of elders.\n\n"To me,the meanest flower that blows can give\n Thought that do often lie too deep for tears"(Wordsworth)-\none can read the message of eternity in the simplest flower-Nature is the greatest teacher.\n\n"The quality of mercy is not strained,\nIt droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven\nUpon the place beneath"(The Merchant of Venice,Shakespeare)\n\n"Where youth grows pale,and spectrethin,and dies; \n    Where but to think is to be full of sorrow\n       And leadeneyed despairs,\n    Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,\n Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow"(Ode to a Nightingale,Keats)-the harsh reality of life
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Hamlet!! we just finished reading that in my ap senior english class last friday!  try sparknotes.com, it really helps, and there's even a section, no-fear-shakespeare, that has the original text next to everyday english, so that it is easier to understand what it being said in our modern lingo...\nhope this helps!!!
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."\n~ William Shakespeare.
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It's a quote from "Hamlet" by Shakespeare.\n\nWhat seems crazy at first glance (madness) may have a logical pattern or reason (method).
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... that's Shakespeare right, hes really hard to understand. but hes also pretty "deep" and makes some important social comments... stick with it.. as for me , I'll check back and see what you come up with..... i like hamlet... saw ALL the movie versions
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You're lucky I love this book and it's sitting next to me...\n\nAtticus: "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you see things from his point of view--"\nScout: "Sir?"\nAtticus: "--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."\n\n\nThe two answerers above me- did you ever consider this is a high school student that can't figure it out?  Perhaps they are being lazy or perhaps they just don't know which quote is correct.  Don't answer the question if you're just going to be a jerk.