Category Archives: Elegant Shakespearean Quotes

Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2

Posted on January 7, 2024 by jimmie

 “…And now remains That we find the cause of this effect” In Current Language: We must try to understand the causes of what’s happening. Suggestions For Use: When you are on the point of explaining to an audience the reasons behind a series of events and when the subject may be politically sensitive. The reference Read More

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King Richard III, act 5, sc. 2

Posted on December 28, 2023 by jimmie

               “True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.” In Current Language: Hope, sustained by good reasons and good motives, is nimble, and soars with the graces of a flying swallow. It can transform kings into divine creatures and common Read More

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Posted on November 21, 2023 by jimmie

King Richard III, act 4. Sc. 4   Actual Quote: “An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.” In Current Language: An audience responds more positively to a story that is told simply Suggestions For Use: It could be your comment on questionable, dubious and intricate statements. Any listener intent to find applications of the Read More

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Decline and Fall of the Western World

Posted on November 19, 2022 by jimmie

Comparisons are often like bikinis, what they reveal is suggestive, what they conceal is vital. The principle equally applies when comparing the history of nations, as implied in the title, which echoes Gibbon’s 6-book, monumental “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Indeed, in a possible contest of titles, quotes or witticisms, a winner would Read More

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The Reason for Things

Posted on August 11, 2022 by jimmie

The mythical average citizen probably believes that the universe is under the perpetual superintendence of uncontrollable forces. And that the hallucinating social changes currently occurring – and of which he is sometimes the victim – are akin to a force of nature. Meaning that the slings and arrows of outrageous prevarication, of crime, of political Read More

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Putin, Macron, Biden

Posted on April 20, 2022 by jimmie

“One, no-one, one hundred thousand” is the title of a novel by Italian author Luigi Pirandello. ‘One’ refers to the image that everyone has of himself, ‘no one’ refers to what the protagonist decides to be at the end of the novel. ‘One hundred thousand’ refers to the images that others have of us. As Read More

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Ukraine, The Fumes of Madness

Posted on March 16, 2022 by jimmie

In about 50 BC the Latin poet Publilius Syrus said, “By knowing nothing, life is most delightful” (In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est.) And in 1788 English poet Thomas Gray rendered the idea in English, “Where Ignorance is Bliss, It is Folly to be Wise.” The preamble is necessary, I think, for two reasons. I Read More

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Covid and the Magic Power of 3

Posted on August 21, 2021 by jimmie

The recent and still boiling controversy about the nature, choice, type, assortment, variety, disparity, quality, benefits or dangers of available Covid vaccines shows clearly that the approximation of ideas cannot abate the vehemence of passion. And passion leads men to display behavior remote from the precincts of reason. The whole bears some similarities to fundamentalist Read More

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The Mystery of Things

Posted on July 2, 2021 by jimmie

There is a certain satisfaction, however idle, in finding the seeds and weak beginnings of social phenomena that affect the world at large. And in understanding the orientations and critical directions of the historical process we live in. Even if most of us remain helpless and impotent spectators of public calamities, or witness the vanity Read More

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Erewhon or the Crime of Illness

Posted on February 10, 2021 by jimmie

Samuel Butler published his novel Erewhon in 1872. The title is the (almost) reverse spelling of ‘Nowhere’ and it applies to a country the author discovered. He probably had in mind the Southern island of New Zealand where he minded sheep for a while. The protagonist, Higgs, tending sheep in a prairie, looks at a Read More

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