Shakespeare's funny quotes

[Smiley]

Hello, I have to do a presentation on Shakespeare's comedies next week, and i need some examples of funny quotes from his comedy plays, and the reasons why it would be funny to that certain audience. Please help me!! Thanks in advance.

[JohnPPotts]

"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them - but not for love" As You Like It, and if I remember rightly it's Act IV Scene 2. Especially from a playwright who based so much of his comedy on the idiocies of people in love (in the situation it's also ironic as Rosalind - who says the line - is in love with the man she says it to although she's in disguise at the time).

[Clanad]

"Frist thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers", Henry VI, Act IV Scene III...

[natalie_1982]

Erm, shouldn't you be doing your own homework?!  LOL. 

[RevShirls]

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage" - Twelfth Night Act 1 Scene 5

[Oneeyedtic]

(1) It is a wise father that knows his own child.

(2) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

(3) Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

(4) Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

(5) Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse.

[Rabelais]

My personal favourite is in Henry IV, Part I. Where Glendower is trying to impress the Prince, and informs him of his mystic abilities by telling him, "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." To which Hotspur replies, "Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"

[jenstar]

You have to give reasons why it would be funny? Surely if you have to explain it, it's not?