Quotes in your head that just won't go away

simu

I'm talking about bits in poems and plays you had to learn off for school that you still remember years later.

Some of mine (possibly not 100% correct but that's part of the fun):

"I take it much unkindly that thou Iago, who hast held my purse as if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this" (start of Othello)

"Plato thought nature but a spume that plays
Upon a ghostly paradigm of things
Aristotle played the taws
Upon the bottom of the king of kings"

"Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind
And took a mess of shadows for its meat"

"What need you being come to sense
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the half-pence to the pence and prayer to shivering prayer
Until you have dried the marrow from the bone"

"I shall lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart" (All these from WB Yeats poems)

"Locked fast inside a dream with iron gates"
"He is not yet made man that has reached the age of Christ" (both from Thomas Kinsella poems)

Tusky

'Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, a barron septre in my gripe.'

Lainey

i will arise and go now and go to inishfree and a small cabin build there of clay and wattle made
nine bee rows will i have there and a hive for the honeybee
and live alone in the bee loud glade.. (or something like that) wb yeats inishfee

Block (8

"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."

Always thought it was cool (nerd!) but partly cause it was in some MTV ad or something when I was doing my leaving :rolleyes:

joe.

"there's a dance in billy brennans barn tonight"

Beatrix

"The devil may cite Scripture to suit his purpose" Merchant of Venice

"In sooth I know not why I am so sad,
It wearies me, you say it wearies you,
Yet how I caught it, found it or came by it
What stuff tis made of I have yet to learn
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me "

"Love set you going like a fat gold watch" - Sylvia Plath

"No footfall tapping secrecies of stone" - Patrick Kavanagh

To be cliché - "I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a croud
A host of golden daffodils" -Wordsworth - Yuck

My first post.

radiospan

"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring When weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush" - Spring by Hopkins.

fizzynicenice

in my younger and more turbulent years, my father gave me some advice which i have been turning over in my head ever since. whenever you wish to critisize* anyone, just remember that not everyone in life has had the advantages youve had.- the great gatsby

*= i so cant spell that word


oh and of course "I love when the milk turns chocolaty"-coco the monkey

Micro1

'I must not fear, Fear is the mind killer that brings totally oblivion'(Dune) , I know thats wrong by the way, buts its stuck in my head and i kinda like it that way.

Naos

"I wandered lonley as a cloud, thats float on high o'er vales and hills
when all at once i saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils" Wordsworth (need i go explain)

hee hee , had to put it in, tis a classic bhoy!

"let the eye wink at the hand" MacBeth

ps. to those who quoted sylvia plath, i HATE here, SO MUCH. seriously. hate.

tman

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

Earthhorse

Originally posted by bmarley
"there's a dance in billy brennans barn tonight"

Man, that's from Philadelphia, Here I Come isn't it?

I studied that play for two years and never answered a question on it in the end.

Q_Elexra

"All's changed, change utterly
A terrible beauty is born"

"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave"

both by W.B. Yeats

"What passing bells
For those who die as cattle"

from 'Anthem For Doomed Youth'

"Dulce et decurum est, pro patri mori"

from 'Dulce et decurum est' by Wilfred Owen

But my fave of all

"Call no man happy until he's in his grave"

from 'Oedipus Rex'

Q_Elexra

Originally posted by Earthhorse
Man, that's from Philadelphia, Here I Come isn't it?

I studied that play for two years and never answered a question on it in the end.

Don't know about PHIC but it's in Patrick Kavanagh's poem 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening'

Earthhorse

Ah, you're right of course. Good thing I didn't answer on it after all!

callmescratch

Originally posted by Micro1
'I must not fear, Fear is the mind killer that brings totally oblivion'(Dune) , I know thats wrong by the way, buts its stuck in my head and i kinda like it that way.

off topic, but isn't that what peter the puppy says over and over before he morphs in "earthworm jim"?
i could have the wrong quote, or the wrong cartoon

can't think of any quotes right now, except that on the last page of the copy of 100 years of solitude i first read, someone had written "where have all the buendías gone?", which summed up how i felt right then and it stuck in my mind.