re: What is your favorite line from Shakespeare?

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double bag it, luke

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Pfftt... Condoms are for sailors and gays, YOLO bro.

Upvote for bringing the topic back to Shakespeare seamlessly. You have a gift, sir.

Now can you call her a whore in a Seuss-like anapestic meter?

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What is your favorite line from Shakespeare?

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To Paige... Or not to Paige... That IS the question.

I bite my thumb at you.

Might mark down the whole of King Lear. Here are the first that come to mind.

"No, I will go seek / some ditch wherein to die" (Antony and Cleopatra 4.6)

"Thank God for my humility" (Richard III, 2.1)

For beauty, Hamlet:

"But look, the Morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill." (Hamlet 1.1)

For a speech, why not Falstaff?

I would you had but the wit: 'twere better than
your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-
blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make
him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine.
There's never none of these demure boys come to any
proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,
and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a
kind of male green-sickness; and then when they
marry, they get wenches: they are generally fools
and cowards; which some of us should be too, but for
inflammation. A good sherris sack hath a two-fold
operation in it. It ascends me into the brain;
dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy
vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive,
quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and
delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the
voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes
excellent wit. The second property of your
excellent sherris is, the warming of the blood;
which, before cold and settled, left the liver
white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity
and cowardice; but the sherris warms it and makes
it course from the inwards to the parts extreme:
it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives
warning to all the rest of this little kingdom,
man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and
inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain,
the heart, who, great and puffed up with this
retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour
comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon is
nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work; and
learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till
sack commences it and sets it in act and use.
Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for
the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his
father, he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land,
manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent
endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile
sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If
I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I
would teach them should be, to forswear thin
potations and to addict themselves to sack.

(2 Henry IV 4.3)

frick on, looser.