Category Archives: After Dinner Quotes

After dinner quotes and in general an elegant toast after dinner can be a plus in business or in any social occasion. Shakespeare is an almost inexhaustible source for before, during and after dinner quotes and toasts

Shakespeare on McGovern’s Memorial, War, Peace, and Speakers’ Lies

Posted on October 26, 2012 by jimmie

 “… like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.” (Tempest, act 1, sc. 2) Comments.  George McGovern, presidential candidate in 1972 who valiantly opposed the Vietnam War, (and when doing so was considered “anti-American”),  died this month. Those who followed McGovern’s Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Elegant Shakespearean Quotes, Fighting your Adversary, Insults Shakespeare-style, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Sayings about Life, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare on McGovern’s Memorial, War, Peace, and Speakers’ Lies

Shakespeare on England, Model to her Greatness

Posted on October 23, 2012 by jimmie

“O England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart” (Henry V, chorus, second act) Comments.  As we know, Shakespeare was what today we would call a strong nationalist. Foreign characters perform poorly, be they French, Italians, Spanish, Roman or Latin. That the chorus make such a gratifying statement about England Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Motivational Sayings, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Shakespeare Invocations, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare on England, Model to her Greatness

Shakespeare on Cold Symptoms & Natural Remedies

Posted on October 20, 2012 by jimmie

 “Let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my belly’s as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the reins.” (Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 5) Comments.  The cold season is on us – at least those of us in the Northern hemisphere. And the corporate Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Amusing Shakespeare, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Medicine in Shakespeare, Sayings about Life, Shakespeare on Health Care, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare on Cold Symptoms & Natural Remedies

Shakespeare, Foul is Fair & Europe’s Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 18, 2012 by jimmie

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 1) Comments.   In 1985 Nobel decreed that the prize should be given to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Amusing Shakespeare, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Chances Quotes, Fighting your Adversary, Insults Shakespeare-style, Presentation Ideas, Sayings about Life, Shakespeare in Management, Shakespeare in Politics, Shakespeare Invocations, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Shakespeare, Conspiracy and US Foreign Policy

Posted on October 15, 2012 by jimmie

“…O conspiracy! Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free? O, then by day Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, Conspiracy; Hide it in smiles and affability: For if thou have thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Fighting your Adversary, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Shakespeare in Management, Shakespeare in Politics, Shakespeare Invocations, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare, Conspiracy and US Foreign Policy

Shakespeare on October and Fall Poetry

Posted on October 14, 2012 by jimmie

”Sir, the year growing ancient, yet on summer’s death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter” (Winter’s Tale act 4, sc. 4) Comments.  Dr. Johnson observed in the “Idler” that “It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Romantic Shakespearean Quotes, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare on October and Fall Poetry

Shakespeare, Autumn and Climate Change

Posted on October 12, 2012 by jimmie

“… The spring, the summer, The chiding autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the ‘mazed world, By their increase knows not which is which.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream act 2, sc. 1) Comments. After months of seemingly interminable dryness, rain has returned to Portland and to what Alistair Cook called “the damp England of Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Amusing Shakespeare, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Elegant Shakespearean Quotes, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare, Autumn and Climate Change

Shakespeare and the Military-Industrial Establishment

Posted on October 11, 2012 by jimmie

“…Nay, had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.” (Macbeth act 4, sc. 3) Comments.  Eugene Debs (1855 – 1926), an American union leader and one-time member of the Democratic Party wrote, “The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare and the Military-Industrial Establishment

Shakespeare on Greed for Gold and Consequences

Posted on October 10, 2012 by jimmie

“How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object!” (King Henry IV part 2, act 4, sc.4) Comments.  When the future Henry V tried the crown on his head in the room where his ailing father was dying, his intent was misunderstood. He was not anxious to wear the crown before his time Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Business Presentations, Motivational Sayings, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Shakespeare in Management, Shakespeare in Politics, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare on Greed for Gold and Consequences

Shakespeare’s Warning against Marketing Lies

Posted on October 8, 2012 by jimmie

“…Let me have no lying: it becomes none but tradesmen” (Winter’s Tale, act 4, sc. 3) Comments.  Thinking that lying be amenable to curbing is senseless. Even politicians have found a set of Orwellian alternatives to the act of lying. Why condemn as a sin what is actually a virtue? In our post-industrial society of Read More

Posted in After Dinner Quotes, Amusing Shakespeare, Best Shakespeare Quotes, Insults Shakespeare-style, Philosophical, Psychological & Historical Considerations, Presentation Ideas, Sayings about Life, Shakespeare in Management, Shakespeare in Politics, Shakespeare on Mass Psychology and Group Behavior, Social Exchanges Shakespeare style | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Shakespeare’s Warning against Marketing Lies