Quote number 4:
These violent delights have violent ends.
Quote 5:
Brevity is the soul of wit.
I'm doing one more because it's my favorite quote in all of Shakespeare:
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Actually, I got my handle from The Simpsons:
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As for the quote:
"Hamlet didn't say that."
"I think I remember Hamlet accurately."
"Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did."
Northanger Freeway? Tai and Prejudice? Dress and Sensibility? MacArthur Park? Purse-suasion? Sanditon Monica?
Nah, it’s the other one.Spoiler!
I’m good at trivia, not so good at knowing quotes. I don’t retain poetry. I’ve never spoken the words “I believe it was John Stuart Mill who said...”
But here’s one that comes to mind because of recent college basketball, specifically Mr. Stanley and Mr. Winston:
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look”
Julius Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2
I'm writing a book on why Shakespeare is responsible, more or less, for World War I and II.
I can do this all day. My favorites though, are the insults. I give my acting students a sheet of them and have them chase each other down while shouting them at the top of their lungs.