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 and Ed Koch

Posted on February 7, 2013 by jimmie

“…the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 2)   Comment.  I am referring to the political persona, not to the human being. The death of Ed Koch, three times mayor of New York has brought in the usual flood of tributes from the establishment and Read More

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Shakespeare and Eliminating the High Cost of Education

Posted on February 4, 2013 by jimmie

“Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks… Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others’ books” (Love Labour’s Lost, act 1, sc. 1) Comment. Biron’s ambivalence about the value of education may be kept in mind by those young men (and especially ladies), eager Read More

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Shakespeare, Dante and the Italian Plays and a quote on absence

Posted on January 22, 2013 by jimmie

This website webmaster will be absent for a few days in Italy, where he will give presentations on his book “Il Nostro Dante Quotidiano – 3500 modi di cavarsela con Dante”. Translation, “Our Daily Dante – 3500 ways to get away with it with Dante”. The book was published by the Tuscan Region and the Read More

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Shakespeare on the Pope Blessing the CIA Director

Posted on January 20, 2013 by jimmie

“’Tis too much proved – that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.”  (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1) Comments. If the director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, can get a blessing from the Pope, it is high time to dial up Milton and from his Paradise Lost call up Read More

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Shakespeare, Heavenly Shows & the Presidential Inauguration

Posted on January 8, 2013 by jimmie

“When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do tempt at first with heavenly shows, As I do now.” (Othello act 2, sc. 3) The topic “heavenly show” referred to in this entry is the President’s Inauguration Phantasmagoria shortly to be broadcast on your corporate television screens. What is new this year is that Read More

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Shakespeare on the Afghans’ Point of View

Posted on January 6, 2013 by jimmie

“In time we hate that which we often fear. ” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 3) The news from the corporate media is such that, should they declare that today Jan 6, 2013 is Sunday, it is advisable to check for yourself that it is really so. It follows that many (or rather that Read More

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Shakespeare, the New Year and the Power of Hope

Posted on December 31, 2012 by jimmie

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”  (King Richard III, act 5, sc. 2) Comments. True, we only have to look at the news and we see things that leave us astonished, even though most of us are inured to the limitless possibility of wickedness Read More

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Shakespeare on a Hand-cuffed and Abused Santa Claus in Texas

Posted on December 27, 2012 by jimmie

“The ancient proverb will be well effected, – A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.”  (King Henry VI part 2 act 3, sc. 1) Comments. As you can see from the picture (and from the video whose link is also posted in this entry), in Austin, Texas, Santa Claus has been handcuffed and Read More

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Shakespeare on Peace with Comments on the King’s Chapel Christmas Concert

Posted on December 24, 2012 by jimmie

“And peace proclaims olives of endless age” (SON 107)   Comments. I like(d) to listen to the Cambridge King’s College Choir’ Christmas Concert. This time I didn’t and opted instead to tune in to the Spanish-Mexican Radio Station of Portland, Oregon – where even Silent Night and Auld Lang Sine are played with mariachi trumpets Read More

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Shakespeare on Courage and Julian Assange’s Christmas Message

Posted on December 23, 2012 by jimmie

“Courage mounteth with occasion: Let them be welcome then, we are prepared.” (King John, act 2, sc. 1) Comments. Of the many forthcoming or already pronounced “Christmas” messages, the truest to the spirit of the season and the temper of the times comes from Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, besieged by the Read More

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