165 Brush up your quotes

Brush up your quotes

In ninth grade English, the teacher required the students in my class to maintain a notebook with our favorite quotes from the plays from Shakespeare that we were reading. 

It made quite an impression on me. I continued adding quotations after the class was finished. Those quotes come to mind so often.



What about this one when standing on a scale?

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt

Spoken by Hamlet, Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2

Sometimes the line is sullied instead of solid. That could work after eating an entire ice cream container! Or bag of chips!

Anytime I see a skull, preferably human:

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him. Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1

There are several I remember when I have messed up mightily:

Lord, What fools these mortals be

Puck, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 2

Act I, Scene III

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise

Fool, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 5

When I have trouble believing a tale of woe from man or woman
 (especially when I was working):

The lady protests too much, methinks.

Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2It is usually misquoted by starting with methinks.

So perhaps you should Brush Up Your Shakespeare--you never know what situation will arise! Enjoy that great classic song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIpp2Jj8AQ

Farewell!

Trish