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, a Christmas Rose, Reflection and Music

“At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May’s new fangled mirth, But like of each thing as in season grows.” (Love’s Labours Lost, act 1, sc. 1 “It’s the season to be jolly…etc.” And, at least for some, reflection is the companion of gayety. Or perhaps the din and Read More

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Shakespeare, Secrecy & Recent Information on 9/11

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He’s more secure to keep it shut, than shown. For vice repeated’s like the wandering wind, Blows dust in others’ eyes, to spread itself.” (Pericles, act 1, sc. 1)  As Dr. Johnson noted, the “industry of observation has divided the most miscellaneous and confused assemblages into Read More

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Shakespeare and the Defeat of the Swiss Referendum on Compensations

“Do they all deny her? An they were sons of mine, I’d have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk, to make eunuchs of.“ (All’s Well That Ends Well, act 2, sc. 5) When it became known that Switzerland would hold a referendum – limiting the spread between the lowest and the Read More

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Shakespeare on a new Wall Street Shylock

“How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object!” King Henry IV part 2, act 4, sc. 4 SAC Capital Advisors, one of the most profitable hedge funds in history, pleaded guilty to security and wire fraud charges last week. SAC carried out insider trading “on a scale without known precedent”, according to Read More

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Shakespeare and Autumn

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang….” (SON 73) Autumn, the bright solemn fading of the year – a metaphor for old age… and a reminder that Read More

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Finding Shakespeare in Unusual Places

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. (Hamlet 1.3) Relatively few people know of the War of 1812, even in the United States. Or rather they may know of the song “The Read More

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Shakespeare, Columbus Day & the Pledge of Allegiance

“Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Our strong arms be our conscience, swords and law!” (King Richard III, act 5, sc.3) Each year, on or around the 12th of October, the United States  celebrate the discovery Read More

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Shakespeare on History of Man extended to Art

“There is a history in all men’s lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of Read More

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Shakespeare, Health Care and the Limits of Medicine

Whom worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider, By medicine life may be prolong’d, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Cymbeline, act 5, sc. 5 For ordinary citizens it is difficult to understand the issues surrounding the so-called Obamacare plan, legislation or reform, however we may want to call it. Read More

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Shakespeare, Money and Politics

“… And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.” Winter’s Tale act 4, sc. 3   Following is the transcription of a message left on the telephone recorder of a lobbyist by a prominent US Congresswoman. For our international visitors, the matter is perfectly legal. A Read More

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