It’s Shakespeare’s B-day:
Include your favorite quote in the comments.
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The Confluence 
Conflucians say what?
Happy Shakespeare’s Birthday!
Much Ado About Nothing
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
What hapened to the radio show? I’m late.
We were there. Lil Isis was her bubbly self as the newest Conflucian!
“There ‘s daggers in men’s smiles”
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
“When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly ‘s done,
When the battle ‘s lost and won”
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe topful
Of direst cruelty!
Yond’ Cassius has a lean and hungry look
He thinks too much, such men are dangerous
hey who is gona try & force a shut down of Conflucians Say
Nobody
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.
Portia!! One of my favs!
“… ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door but, ’tis enough. ‘Twill serve.”
Get thee to a nunnery!
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon’s sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I’ll be gone:
Our queen and all our elves come here anon.
Oh what fools these mortals be!
Sadly we don’t know the date he was born. But this is as good a day as any. Here’s a nice digital library of his works:
http://digital.lib.muohio.edu/shakespeare/
What a guy.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a
thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.
(Yorick was a clown/jester)
There is more to heaven and earth than is dreamt of in our philosophy, Horatio.
O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment:
If you were civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
But you must join in souls to mock me too?
-HELENA (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
i played Helena in 9th grade!
Cool! I was Juliet in the 8th grade. It opened a wonderful world for me.
I was Macbeth in 8th grade
20 years later I dated one of the witches – being in the play with her got me a date – we were together 3 years.
(she wasn’t really a witch)
(She’s also “the one that got away”)
That fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves.
I’d quote from the Merchant of Venice but someone might take it the wrong way.
Bassanto:
This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
To excuse the the current of thy cruelty.”
Worst typo ever, I meant…
“To excuse the current of of thy cruelty,” could Shakespeare possibly smite me?
Two of’s? Seriously.
Well, time for some green tea or something. 🙂
(madly flipping through pages….)
you always make me laugh
🙂 blushing
Thank you – You’ve made me smile several times today!
smiling and blushing
quotes classics lets see hmm lets see
know what you’re thinking punk. You’re thinking “did he fire six shots or only five?” Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow you head clean off, you’ve gotta ask yourself a question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk? –Harry Callahan
In CE’s newest:
“Get off my lawn!”
In his best:
“Who owns this shithole?”
One of my favorites!
What evils are not wrought by Anarchy!
She ruins … States, and overthrows the home,
She dissipates and routs the embattled host;
While discipline preserves the ordered ranks.
Therefore we must maintain authority
And yield to title to a woman’s will.
Better, if needs be, men should cast us out
Than hear it said, a woman proved his match.
Antigone
I exist in the depths of solitude
pondering my true goal
Trying 2 find peace of mind
and still preseerve my soul
“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch”.
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.”
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”.
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer”.
Life through my bloodshot eyes
would scare a square 2 death
poverty, murder, violence
and never a moment 2 rest
“These words are razors to my wounded heart”.
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
I have my Pelican complete works.
“The common curse of mankind, – folly and ignorance”.
“Bond. James Bond”
HAHA, you made me laugh.
when given the choice to be kind, or be right
it is always harder to choose to be kind
interesting choice
Yes, quite.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest –
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men –
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.”
Wherefore rejoice? What triumphs brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
“My comment is in moderation”
-Afrocity
From famous quotes by Afrocity and other conservatives
ROFLOL!
Good one, afrocity.
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”
“Say ‘ello to my little friend!”- Tony Montana
“I don’t need to kill everyone. Just my enemies” – Michael Corleone
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
King Richard III.
“The first thing we do is hang all the lawyers.”
” If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”
” For it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.”
“That’s it for you” – myiq2xu the moderator
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
From TA Act III scene 1
-“… if they did hear,
They would not mark me, or if they did mark,
They would not pity me, yet plead I must;
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;
Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
For that they will not intercept my tale:
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;
And, were they but attired in grave weeds,
Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
A stone is soft as wax,–tribunes more hard than stones;
A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.”
(smiling)
I love you guys
-katiebird
PETRUCHIO
Come, come, you wasp; i’ faith, you are too angry.
KATHARINA
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
PETRUCHIO
My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
KATHARINA
Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies,
PETRUCHIO
Who knows not where a wasp does
wear his sting? In his tail.
KATHARINA
In his tongue.
PETRUCHIO
Whose tongue?
KATHARINA
Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
PETRUCHIO
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
KATHARINA
That I’ll try.
You talkin’ to me?! – Taxi Driver
Travis Bickle: “The days go on and on… they don’t end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don’t believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.”
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,
And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’
“theres nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot”-Harry Callahan
“Whip me such honest knaves.”
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones:
Had I your tongue and eyes, I’d use them so
That heaven’s vaults should crack. She’s gone for ever!
“I’ll have what she’s having”
— When Harry Met Sally
One of the best comic scenes ever–that is Rob Reiner’s mother in that scene.
I think it’s pretty clear that Lady MacBeth had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
LOL
exist in the depths of solitude
pondering my true goal
Trying 2 find peace of mind
and still preseerve my soul
Come not between the dragon [Puma?] and his wrath.
“Be gone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”
“Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?” — Casablanca
Troublemaker
I’ll have you know that has always been one of my favorite quotes!
ooops! That may have been an *invalid response.*
Do you bite your thumb at me?
lol, uh-huhn
You’re being incredibly insensitive. I’m going to start my own blog and you’ll be sorry.
” O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.”
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you…
Rick: And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Here’s looking at you, kid.
(sniff) …. always brings a tear to my eye.
Well at least meet her. Maybe she’d be someone you’d like to kill.
That’s Danny Devito in “Throw momma from the train”
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”
“Once a king, always a king,
but once a night is enough”
Grandpa myiqzxu
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
I lied.”
Der Governator of Caleeforneea
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
hello everyone listened to the show I so enjoyed Little Isis as always and dakinikat and I speak economics but I admit I am a second year student to her native tounge.
RD you are always a bright voice in my heart and BB when I was gonna chuck it all in when Hillary accepted SOS it was RD You and another srtrong voice that slapped me out of my stupidity….
You all must admit that if you three together ganged up with facts on the poor old 300 lb bear fuzzy….I didnt stand a chance no matter how hard I leaned….
and you RD quoting the Scottish Tradegy….so funnny when I was just thinking of You Boomer and the third person as the wyrd sisters….working a spell on me and bringing me to my senses!
((((fuzzy)))) welcome to:
brush up your shakespeare!
start quoting him now!
Fuzzy,
I’m very glad you came to your senses. You are a very sensitive person. I know you’re going throught a tough time right now. I hope you won’t be too scarce, because we miss you so much when we don’t hear from you.
I don’t know how I would have gotten through the last year without you and your calming prayers.
{{{Fuzzy}}}
With one last hug, I’m going to bed — goodnight all!
Out, damned spot! out, I say!–One: two: why,
then, ’tis time to do’t.–Hell is murky!–Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?–Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
ok did we not once roil poor Pampers for putting Shakespears Tradegies on his Read list?
Yes I know we have actually read them and he just did the Cliff Notes…so cna we have some real silliness like maybe some monty python no no no not gay enough
we need:
http://www.youtube.com/user/abfab07?blend=3&ob=1
” Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.”
AB FAB random choice
I love Ab Fab!
me three, patsy or edina?
Edina is my favorite. I identify with her weight problem and low self-esteem.
Love that show. And for me, Patsy. But maybe that’s partly because she was Purdey in the New Avengers. OK, no Emma. Peel, but then who is. And she was a bond girl (albeit for about 3 seconds in HMSS).
But I just loved her total and complete drunk all day and night. Good way to be if you ask me. 🙂 But of course it’s hard to compete with the comedy of Saunders in anything. What a show.
Great quote from that show:
Saffie: My life just flashed before my eyes.
Eddie: What was it like? A Bergman film without the jokes?
“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” — Walter Sobchak (The Big Lebowski)
God I love the Coen brothers. Simply the greatest eveh.
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers
“if they had,nt done what i told em not to do thed still be alive” mr blond . – the Reservoir Dogs
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day. Well. I just don’t understand it.
— Marge Gunderson
” Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o’ the building!”
It’s a bit long, but it’s my favorite:
Hamlet:
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event,
A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward, I do not know
Why yet I live to say ‘This thing’s to do;’
Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puff’d
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger dare,
Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then,
That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
‘people should not be afraid of there govenments . goverments should be afraid of there people’ -V-
V for Vendetta
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
Thy God’s, and truth’s; then if thou fall’st, O Cromwell,
Thou fall’st a blessed martyr!
I highly esteem this quote.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open locks,
Whoever knocks!
OK, while we’re on quotes and were on AB FAB, here are a few from AB FAB:
Eddie: All right, time for another little drinkie before we go?
Saffie: Where are you going?
Eddie: New York.
Saffie: I didn’t think they let people with convictions in.
Eddie: Darling, its not a conviction.
Patsy: Just a firm belief.
Eddie: Yes.
Eddie: In this body there is a thin person dying to get out.
Gran: Just the one dear?
Eddie: Pats. Pats. You know, like, when you are in a room or something, and you think someone is like staring at you…
Patsy: In a room?
Eddie: Or in a plane. Anywhere… anywhere… And you are sort of doing things because you think someone is looking at you like people are looking at you, you know?
Patsy: On a plane?
Eddie: Well, anywhere… anywhere… And then you look at them and they are just sort of asleep but their head is flopped in your direction, you know? Well, I don’t want THAT to happen. I don’t want THAT to be my life, you know. The whole world asleep.
Can’t believe no one had my fav from the bard:
“She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.” — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5)
that was my first quote up at the very top … we share that.
Poop, missed it. Worth repeating though. 🙂
get thee to a nunnery!
hey, I live in a kathouse in new orleans, what do you want ? 😉
LOL in our french quarter in Pcola we had a house called La Casa de Gatos negro…it was a house of ill repute until a bunch of drag queens moved in then the neighborhood improved!
night all back on sunday am in Orlando next 3 days for R and R LOve and kisses to all…
((((Fuzzy))))) many many blessings from all the wisdom beings to you!
New post upstairs!!!
great thread!
thanks !!
“There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark!”
LOL. Because we (Danes) are so selfimportant that just being named by the great bard, makes us proud.
“I read three Shakespeares.” gw bush
(ducks flying tomatoes) 😉
“It makes you stand to! And … not stand to … ”
When said by a good comic actor who illustrates the whole thing using the cassock rope hanging downt he stomach of an extra dressed as a monk, this line gets much funnier.