Favorite Sondheim Lyric?

Mine is a very unconventional choice, I suppose, but every time I hear the song "A Weekend in the Country," I am struck by how clever this lyric is:

Guess what an invitation/ Guess who begins with an A/ Armfeldt is that a relation to the decrepid Desiree?

Love it. Love it. What are everyone else's favorites?

Wow, there are lots, but one my favorites (at the moment) is-

Mama said, "Darling, mustn't be blue-it's not so much do what you likeas it is that you like what you do."

"Pretty isn't beautiful, Mother,
Pretty is what changes.
What the eye arranges
Is what is beautiful."


~Sunday in the Park with George

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His lyrics are so enchanting! It has deep meaning instead of those rap singers rhyming every word possible even if the meaning comes out bizzare.

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From Sweeney, "God that's Good!"

"Things like being careful with your coriander, that's what makes the gravy grander!"

Every time I hear it, I cannot help but laugh at how clever it is.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment...
---Into The Woods

In view of her penchant for something romantic,
De Sade is too trenchant and Dickens too frantic,
And Stendhal would ruin the plan of attack,
As there isn't much blue in "The Red and the Black."
De Maupassant's candour would cause her dismay,
The Brontes are grander but not very gay,
Her taste is much blander, I'm sorry to say,
But is Hans Christian Andersen ever risque?

I love the whole "Now/Later/Soon" sequence, but that's my favorite part.

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I love every lyric from "Children and Art", and Henrik's line from ALNM, but one that really stood out for me as being incredibly witty was:

"Who could ever live with an endless erection that falls to it's knees when it sees its' reflection"

The entire "PASSION" flashback is amazing, as well as The Finale

"to die loved is to have lived"- don't know if it was a lyric so to say, but a great line nevertheless

The bridge in "Everyday a Little Death" tears me apart:
"I would murder him right there, but first I'd die,
he talks softly of his wars, and his horses and his whores," especially the way it is sung can make me just want to give Charlotte a big hug.

"there's alot I'll have missed, but I'll not have me dead when I die."- the Miller's Son.

I will keep thinking during work today and come back!

I found this old topic through the search, and just had to bring it back :)

"make me confused, mock me with praise" - Being Alive

"I'm a fragment of the day" - Someone in a Tree

and so very many from Sunday In The Park With George...

"The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on." - Move On

"But the woman who won't wait for you knows there's a part of you always standing by, mapping out the sky" - Finishing the Hat

aaand pretty much all of 'We Do Not Belong Together'!

<3

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'children can only grow from something you love to something you lose'- the change of one letter saying so much- delicious!

"Where'ya going-----
Barcelona------------
Oh--------------------"

"First you're another slow eyed vamp,
then someone's mother,
then you're camp."
Considering it was written for Yvonne De Carlo, who did go from playing slow eyed vamps, to playing Moses mother in "The ten Commandments" to playing Lily Munster- it's pretty fantastic.

Oh, this could change every second. But among my favorites has to be from SITPWG.

I chose and my world was shaken, so what?
The choice may have been mistaken,
the choosing was not.

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