I finally got 'round to seeing this play... after about a decade of wanting to. (I acquired the movie, made with Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth)

I find myself both amused, and feeling as if there is a lot I am missing now that I've finally seen it. Perhaps there are some things I just didn't get.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form of moving how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god!

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
William Shakespeare

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.

William Shakespeare

They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better,
For being a little bad.

"Measure for Measure"
William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

Advice I could probably better integrate into my own thinking. =/

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history: The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
Othello
William Shakespeare