Greetings, all! You're probably wondering what the heck this is. Well,
i'll tell you: I've compiled a list of any and all quotes ever uttered by the
<snicker> great and noble Tatewaki Kuno.
No, I'm not crazy! It's an actual thing i've done: what follows is a
collection of Shakespearian {and other} quotes that would make even Richard
"Thy" Lawson shake in his boots. If Kuno said it, and it's a quote from
ANYwhere, you'll find it, it's location in real life, and it's location in
Ranma 1/2 episode-wise in this here list. Some of them he paraphrased from the
original a bit, but they're all here. If I missed any, let me know. {I don't
think his famous 'Vengeance of Heaven' line is from anywhere; he just made it
up.}
Oh, and before we begin, a little tribute to our good <snicker> friend Tybalt:
"It fits, when such a villain is a guest. I'll not endure him."
-Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V, line 75.
Like so. Well, here they are, in chronological order: First the tapes, then
the OAV's, then the movies.
It's official; I have no life.
Lunatic Fringe Fanfic Productions {You don't have to be crazy to work here,
but if you aren't you can't join the union} is proud {?} to present...
Kuno's Greatest Hits.
Items in {} indicate things Kuno added. Items in [] indicate things he
omitted.
"But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, than that which, withering on the
virgin thorn, grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, line 76.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 2.
"What fools these mortals be."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene II, line 115.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 2.
"Though she be but litttle, she is fierce."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene II, line 325.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 2.
"Cowards die so many times before their deaths."
-Julius Caesar, Act III Scene II, line 32.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 3.
"For so it falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we
enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, why, then we wrack the value, then we
find the virtue that possesion would not show us whiles it was ours."
-Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene I, line 219.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 3.
"O! How this spring of joy resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day."
-Two Gentleman of Verona, Act I, Scene III, line 84.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 4.
"So do quick bright things come to confusion."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, line 144.
Nibunnoichi, Ep 4.
"Thus with a kiss, I die."
-Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene III, line 120.
Ranma and Juliet, Ep 1. {#1 On the tape, not the series.}
"It is the east! And {fair} Juliet is the sun!"
-Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II, line 3.
Ranma and Juliet, Ep 1.
"... to the victor go the spoils..."
-William Learned Marcy, speech to the Senate, January 1832.
Suddenly Sasuke, Ep 1.
"Love {thy beauty} not wisely but too well."
-Othello, Act V, Scene II, line 338.
Da-Doo Ling-Ling, Lung-Lung, Ep 1.
"{We have nothing} to fear but fear itself!"
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first inaugural address, March 1933.
Smells Like Evil Spirit, Ep 2.
"Pearls before swine."
-Matthew 7:6.
Smells Like Evil Spirit, Ep 2.
"Aye, [there's]{but here's} the rub."
-Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, line 56.
Soap gets in your eyes, Ep 2.
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, line 76.
Numerous episodes.
"How much better to weep at joy than joy at weeping."
-Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 28.
OAV 1, Ep 1.
"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, line 234.
OAV 1, Ep 2.
"Hoist with my own petard!"
-Hamlet, Act III, Scene V, line 206.
OAV 1, Ep 2.
"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor in one place."
-The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I, line 42.
OAV 1, Ep 2.
"Light seeking light doth light of light beguile."
-Love's Labours Lost, Act I, Scene I, line 77.
OAV 2, Ep 1.
"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."
-As You Like It, Act I, Scene II, line 59.
OAV 5, Ep 1.
"What fates impose that men must needs abide."
-Henry VI, Part Three, Act IV, Scene III, line 57.
OAV 5, Ep 1.
"They love least that let men know their love."
-Two Gentleman of Verona, Act I, Scene II, line 31.
Movie 1.
"[Since] maids [in modesty] say 'No' to that which they would have [the
profferer] construed 'Aye'."
-Two Gentleman of Verona, Act I, Scene II, line 53.
Movie 1.
That's everything Kuno's quoted so far. I'll update this regularly as he says
more things. And for those of you out there who don't watch the dubs, yes I
KNOW that in the original japanese he never says anything Shakespearian. I
just don't care, that's all.
-Mercutio.
"A plague 'a both your houses!"
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene I, line 112.