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BRC
2008-10-19, 04:07 PM
I recently thought up an antagonist I really like. An Assassin (possibly shadowdancer, possibly a vampire. Assasin the profession, not the class) named "The Poet" who speaks entierly in Shakespeare quotes. So I'm looking for any ideas you have of good quotes for various situations example
(The PC's say "It's The Poet!): "Thou Speakest Aright, I am that merry wanderer of the night."

EvilElitest
2008-10-19, 04:08 PM
Iiago and mark Anthony must have some cool quotes to use
from
EE

Kurald Galain
2008-10-19, 04:11 PM
Have you tried Wikiquote?

Draco Dracul
2008-10-19, 04:13 PM
"Fair is foul and foul is fair" from Macbeth is a pretty cool quote.

bosssmiley
2008-10-19, 04:32 PM
Results 1 - 10 of about 323,000 for Shakespeare Quotes (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Shakespeare+Quotes). (0.15 seconds)

Google is your friend. :smallwink:

EvilElitest
2008-10-19, 04:43 PM
"Cowards may die many times before their deaths"
from
EE

Glawackus
2008-10-19, 04:43 PM
(I know very little about Shakespeare, so I'm just pulling these out based on what looks like it could be applied to D&D. This is a really fun idea, though!)

On magic
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
-from Hamlet

"Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business, as the day
Would quake to look on."
--also Hamlet

Tons of lines from the Witches in Macbeth.

On things going wrong:
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions."
--Hamlet

On death:
"The rest is silence."
--Hamlet

A good one for the masquerade ball:
"Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it."
--Macbeth

Watching someone approach (or breaking in somewhere :smalltongue:):
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes: —
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!"
--Macbeth

After killing someone:
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."
--Macbeth

Fight time:
"Turn, hell-hound, turn!"
--Macbeth

"Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough!"
--Macbeth

If he's one of those nihilist-types:
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
--Macbeth

After the hero saves someone, taunting:
"How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
--The Merchant of Venice

The origin story:
"There was a man who dwelt by a churchyard..."
--The Winter's Tale

The final battle:
"Now my charms are all o'erthrown
And what strength I have's my own"
--The Tempest

RTGoodman
2008-10-19, 04:44 PM
Results 1 - 10 of about 323,000 for Shakespeare Quotes (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Shakespeare+Quotes). (0.15 seconds)

Google is your friend. :smallwink:

What he said.

For what it's worth, you should check out MacBeth's lines from MacBeth (there's a whole bit about a dagger, which works out perfectly for an assassin, I would think), Iago's lines from Othello (since he's all devious and whatnot), and a lot of lines in general from Julius Caesar, since there's a lot of arguing, speech-making, and stabbing of people.

EDIT: Ooh, also, Glawackus is right to include some stuff from The Tempest - there're some good lines in there spread throughout.

Project_Mayhem
2008-10-19, 04:44 PM
''You naughty man''

EvilElitest
2008-10-19, 05:03 PM
When he first enters a fight
"Chaos is come again"
should somebody miss him
"how poor are those who don't have patience"
Mocking a cleric
"We work by wit, not witchcraft"
from
EE

Stupendous_Man
2008-10-19, 05:06 PM
I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death, for thou are unfit for any place but hell.


I think.

EvilElitest
2008-10-19, 05:08 PM
"Draw and talk of peace......i hate the word, as i hate hell, all gnomes and thee"
from
EE

Swordguy
2008-10-19, 05:11 PM
What he said.

For what it's worth, you should check out MacBeth's lines from MacBeth (there's a whole bit about a dagger, which works out perfectly for an assassin, I would think), Iago's lines from Othello (since he's all devious and whatnot), and a lot of lines in general from Julius Caesar, since there's a lot of arguing, speech-making, and stabbing of people.

EDIT: Ooh, also, Glawackus is right to include some stuff from The Tempest - there're some good lines in there spread throughout.

Macbeth, Act II, scene 1

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.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

A bell rings
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.


In the middle of rehearsals for this very show, and playing this part. I BETTER know it. :smallbiggrin:

EvilElitest
2008-10-19, 05:12 PM
"to villainy and Vengeance consecrate":
from
EE

BRC
2008-10-19, 05:15 PM
"Draw and talk of peace......i hate the word, as i hate hell, all gnomes and thee"
from
EE
The party does include a pair of gnomes.

And as for the "Let's kill all the lawyers", a good time to attack the party bard (who does alot of diplomacy)



A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I intend to use that line against the party soulknife.

Asbestos
2008-10-19, 05:19 PM
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war"
Julius Caesar

Dr Bwaa
2008-10-19, 05:32 PM
If you're fluent in iambic pentameter it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with some of your own, if you can't find the words to fit a situation (so to speak). So long as you keep it short, you probably won't risk it being too obvious that you're making some of them up.

Ethdred
2008-10-19, 05:42 PM
Someone produced a book that collected all of Bill's insults - there are some corkers. Whey-faced loon was always a favourite of mine.

paddyfool
2008-10-19, 06:00 PM
A few more suggestions:

Henry V
1
There are few die well that die in battle.

2
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell.

King John
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Henry IV part 1
Now thou art come unto a feast of death.

Much ado about nothing (!)
And trust no agent

Timon of Athens
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy

The Tempest
Whilst thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head

Julius Caesar
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

mabriss lethe
2008-10-19, 06:02 PM
Want some truly twisted stuff. Look up Aaron's quotes in Titus Andronicus. Perfect for a villain.

"If one good Deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very Soule."

my_evil_twin
2008-10-19, 06:07 PM
Aaron, from Titus Andronicus, has this:
"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."
and my personal favorite, this:
"Villain, I have done thy mother."
which means, as far as I can tell, pretty much what it sounds like.

Demi-ninja'd by mabriss lethe.

EvilElitest
2008-10-19, 06:08 PM
Want some truly twisted stuff. Look up Aaron's quotes in Titus Andronicus. Perfect for a villain.

O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done:
Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will;
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.

Prometheus
2008-10-19, 07:47 PM
What you really need is a good death quote. Fortunately for you, there is a dying monologue in just about every Shakespearean play. I'm partial to a couple of lines from Mercutio's in Romeo and Juliet:
"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon...
...No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'
both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a
rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
arithmetic!...
...A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,
And soundly too: your houses!"

Weezer
2008-10-19, 08:02 PM
How about
"A hit, a very palpable hit."

kopout
2008-10-20, 05:38 PM
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!

--Edmund, Act I, scene ii

EvilElitest
2008-10-20, 09:29 PM
Here is my fiddle stick, play with this



i think it goes like this
from
EE

AslanCross
2008-10-21, 12:58 AM
http://www.insults.net/html/shakespeare/

In my opinion, the pinnacle of Shakespearean literature.

ericgrau
2008-10-21, 09:53 AM
You can find Shakespeare's complete works in several places on line. Start with google "(play name) full text", for example. I wouldn't be surprised if they were searchable.

snoopy13a
2008-10-21, 10:31 AM
"Lord, what fools these mortals be"

Robin Goodfellow, A Midsummer Night's Dream

hamishspence
2008-10-21, 10:51 AM
Of course, Star Trek VI has this taken to an extreme, and main characters getting very, very, tired of it.
Still I like:

"Prick us, do we not bleed? Tickle us, do we not laugh?...and wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
(Shylock, Merchant of Venice)

Siddsartre
2008-10-21, 11:09 AM
Act 1, Scene 1 Richard the Third
Evil-ish excerpt from the beginning monologue.
It would work especially well if he has a comically low charisma score.

Edit: Now that I think of it, it'd work very well indeed if he were a vampire. The whole crux of it is that Richard has a debilitating and ghastly deformity.

But I-that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass-
I-that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph-
I-that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them-
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity.
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams...

Person_Man
2008-10-21, 11:37 AM
Most important thing to remember whenever you read Shakespeare; Everything is about sex or death. So if you don't understand what you're reading, re-read it again under the presumption that the character is talking about one or both of these subjects.

Jayabalard
2008-10-21, 11:47 AM
Shakespeare is best in the original Klingon.

Tokiko Mima
2008-10-21, 11:53 AM
Good Shakespearean pick-up line:

"But earthlier happy is the rose distilled,
than that which, withering in the virgin thorn,
grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."

Argh.. I'm having Ranma 1/2 anime flashbacks now. It had a bokken wielding kendoist (Tatewaki Kuno) with an identical Shakespeare schtick.

Dentarthur
2008-10-21, 12:02 PM
This one from Julius Caesar is great for a death-/war-obsessed character. I like the italicized parts as stand-alone lines.

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy.
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war,
All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds.
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Até by his side come hot from Hell,
Shall, in these confines, with a monarch's voice

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

[Replace Italy/Caesar/Até with appropriate country/ruler/demon names from your setting, of course]

comicshorse
2008-10-21, 08:43 PM
" Ill met by moonlight..."
( From A Midsummer Night's Dream and rather appropriate for a vampire)

" I go, I go, faster than the arrow from the Tartars bow."

From Don John the villain of Much Ado about Nothing

"... and it better fits my blood to be distained of all than
to fashion a carriage to rob love from any "

"... though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be
denied but I am a plain dealing villain "

BRC
2008-10-21, 08:53 PM
Ive decided to make him a Sepulchral thief (Cityscape) instead of a Vampire for various reasons ,but alot of these quotes still apply.
Sepulchural theif gives him Hide in Plain Sight, more sneak attack, bonuses to Hide and Move Silently, and the ability to shadow jump 20 ft a day. I picture him attacking the party in a dark alleyway. His combat strategy would be to
Come out of hiding right behind a PC, make a sneak attack, hide again (Using Hide in Plain Sight, it should be noted that he has Spring Attack), repeat as neccessary.

Hmm, originally I was going to have him under a compulsion to serve the organization the PC's are up against, However these villain quotes are just too good (Well, you know what I mean) so he'll probably end up a card-carrying villain.

Ravens_cry
2008-10-21, 09:22 PM
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing,

Scratching couldn't not make it worse and 'twere such a face as yours.

mellowgoth
2008-10-22, 03:49 PM
For an assassin? Lady Macbeth's instructions re: the king:

"Put out the light, and, put out the light.."