We've no time to sit and dither While her withers wither with her
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
"Though the plaintiff's allegation That he harmed her reputation May be just a fabrication Of her own imagination In your sheriff's estimation It's a big consideration And a point the population Seems completely to have missed
Any further reparation Would be merely affectation And a recapitulation Of a hopeless situation After due deliberation In the interest of the nation It is my adjudication That the jury be dismissed."
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
"Whats that muddle in the middle? Thats the Puddle where the poodle did the piddle." SITPWG
"And the candles in our hand will illuminate this land if not tomorow then the day after that" Kiss of the Spider Woman
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Boq - you picked my absolute favorite, but it's worth including the whole quote to show how clever it really is:
And come to think of it Your writing always mirrored our relationship With dangers cropping up And sweet young strangers popping up like weeds. So if you wish official pardoning You better do a little gardening You know you needn't be so generous with your seeds Your fertile lies don't fertilize It needs work.
My Fair Lady: "You, dear friend, who talk so well -- You can go to Hartford, Heresford, and Hampshire!"
Falsettoland: "Just what I wanted at a little league game: My ex-husband's ex-lover! Isn't that what every mother dreams about having at a little league game?"
She sits At the Ritz With her splits of Mumms. And starts to pine For stein With her village chums. But with her schlitz In her mitts Down in Fitz- -Roy's bar, She thinks of the Ritz, oh- It's so schizo!
At the risk of alarming any traditionalists, I'm going to save myself from picking through the hundreds of amazing Sondheim lyrics and go straight for my favourite bit of 'In The Heights':
"And check it, don't get stuck in the rubber-necking on 192nd, there's a double-decker bus wreck."
Here's to our firsts, We learned alot Our future will be gloriously fecund. Of firsts we've had the same amount. Now we'll make each second count. From now on my first to be second comes first.
and
Truth is my friend, just between good guys. Whichever path you take, which life you pick to live in Whichever choice you make, the longing is a given And that's what brings the ache That only the good guys know.
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings
Could I Leave You from Follies -- all of the song, actually, but especially:
Could I leave you? No, the point is, could you leave me? Well, I guess you could leave me the house, Leave me the flat, Leave me the Braques and Chagalls and all that. You could leave me the stocks for sentiment's sake And ninety percent of the money you make. And the rugs And the cooks-- Darling, you keep the drugs. Angel, you keep the books, Honey, I'll take the grand, Sugar you keep the spinet And all of our friends and-- Just wait a goddam minute! Oh, leave you? Leave you? How could I leave you? Sweetheart, I have to confess: Could I leave you? Yes. Will I leave you? Will I leave you? Guess!
"If she says your behavior is heinous Kick her right in the "Coriolanus."
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"What's the muddle, in the middle?" "That's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle" from SITPWG hahaha i even smiled while typing it!
"And then in bed George, I mean he kneads me, I mean like dough, George!" SITPWG
Literally all of Into the Woods...
"You don't mean..." "I'll give you three guesses." "She wouldn't..." "Reduce it to two." "It can't be!" "It never the less is-" "Egerman" "Right! Score one for you."- A Little Night Music
"Barely knowing right from right...nor left from wrong!"- The Drowsy Chaperone
"I would rather wear a barrel than conservative apparel"- Aida
"Oh you can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail" Annie Get Your Gun
...musical theatre in general just make me smile!
"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl
"A thicket it's no trick, is it thick?? "It's the thickest" "The quickest is pick it apart with a stick" "Yes but even one ****it's my thing about blood" "Well it's sick" "It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves" "Dwarfs! Dwarfs are very upsetting"
Agony, Into The Woods
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.