Category Archives: Best Shakespeare Quotes

It is almost a platitude but of all the quotes a speaker may use, Shakespeare’s carry the greater weight and the most recognizable authority. The site www.yourdailyshakespeare.com publishes regularly blogs taking one quote at a time and giving tips of how to use it, as well as the context of the quote and other information. Information mostly derived by the book “Your Daily Shakespeare”

Shakespeare and the Undermining of the Social Compact

Posted on April 11, 2013 by jimmie

“Undoing all, as all had never been!” (King Henry VI, part 2, act 1, sc. 1)   Comment. And so it has come to this, after the ‘war on drugs’ and the ‘war on terror’ we have the ‘war on Social Security’ and the ‘war on Medicare’. For the many (thank you) international friends of Read More

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Shakespeare, Thatcher and British Society

Posted on April 8, 2013 by jimmie

“Thou know’st ‘tis common – all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2) Comment. That Margaret Thatcher would make as much noise with her death as with her life was expected and inevitable –  inevitable as the cycle of life in Queen Gertrude’s words to Hamlet. Thatcher imposed Read More

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Shakespeare and Mass Manipulation

Posted on April 5, 2013 by jimmie

“Faith, there have been many great men that have flattered the people, who never loved them; and there be many that have loved, they know not wherefore; so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better a ground.” (Coriolanus, act 2, sc.2) Comment.  As a means to influence society free Read More

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Shakespeare, (purposeful) Blindness and Overpopulation

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jimmie

“…our very eyes Are sometimes like our judgments, blind!” (Cymbeline, act 4, sc. 1)   Comment.  By not acknowledging a problem we cannot fix it and as long as it remains invisible it will remain insoluble. In the instance, overpopulation is visible and its effects disastrous, but for reasons due to the sum-total of collective Read More

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Shakespeare, Easter, Habit and Curious Related Information

Posted on April 1, 2013 by jimmie

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!” (Two Gentlemen from Verona, act 5, sc. 4) Comment.  Now that this year’s Easter is past, here is some related or, if you like, remarkably useless information. To begin with, the strong though invisible chain of habit (as per this article’s quote) leads most of us Read More

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Shakespeare, Victoria Secret and the Corruption of Neo-liberal Capitalism

Posted on March 29, 2013 by jimmie

“…she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity” (Pericles, act 4, sc. 6) Comment. The appellation, let alone the profession of moralist is historically suspect. Who has the qualifications or the right to dictate moral canons to others? For this reason morality is inevitably intertwined with theological opinions – opinions that, supposedly coming Read More

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Shakespeare and the Medicinal Good Effects of a Good Wine

Posted on March 27, 2013 by jimmie

“A good sherris-sack hath a two fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the crude, dull and foolish vapours which environ it: makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of quick, nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which deliver’d over to the voice (the tongue) which is the birth, becomes Read More

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Shakespeare and leaked-out Video of Torture inside US Prison

Posted on March 25, 2013 by jimmie

“I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1) Comment. The video (link following comment) speaks by itself. It is posted here because there are still some who believe that the US administration and governments are the mirrors of democracy and staunch defenders and Read More

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To Be or not to Be (an Accomplice of the Argentine Junta)

Posted on March 23, 2013 by jimmie

“… that is the question, Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? …” (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1) Comment. Yes, indeed, is it nobler in the mind to be deaf and blind towards Read More

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Shakespeare, Health-care and Death as Consumer Items

Posted on March 21, 2013 by jimmie

“To die by thee, were but to die in jest; From thee to die, were torture more than death. O, let me stay, befall what may befall!” (King Henry VI, part 2, sct 3, sc. 2) Comment.  In the beginning there was the word. Less widely perceived is the importance of how the word is Read More

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