Shakespeare's Best Bits

[abu nuwas]

I intend to try (again) to get my grand-children acquainted with Shakespeare. I would like to bribe them to learn by heart the major speeches. Being a Philistine, and a forgetful one, I should be obliged if anyone would let me know of any that come to mind. Off hand, I have been thinking of:

To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow from The Scottish Play

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things
Knew you not Pompey? (Julius Caesar - I was about 11 when we read that around the class, and all too often I still see how true he had it.)

I come to bury Caesar, not praise him
He was my friend, faithful and just to me (J C)

Now is the Winter of our discontent
made glorious Summer by this son of York (Richard III)

Full fathom five thy father lies
of his bones are coral made
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fade (Tempest)

Cry England ,Harry and St George (Henry V)

Spit fire, spout rain (Lear)

To be or not to be

I must be more tired than I thought. I don't want to google. Let me have your favorites. I shall enjoy a re-read.