Creative Quotations from William Shakespeare for Apr 23

[Balizabet]

Okay William Shakespeare rocks...I literally feed my soul when I read him...and I cannot believe all these posts are so stupid...was he gay? was he straight? was he a liar and was he really an alien? Um...talk about missing the point! Sometimes I think the era in which I live is filled to the brim with the largest hoard of idiots ever accumulated on any solar system!

[154sonnets]

Sweet video: Vivaldi sets it off nicely. Feel free to visit my channel 154sonnets where I'm engaged in an undertaking to commit all the Sonnets to the web as short video films.

[NomisLime]

He was bi... just read his sonnets... it's all in there...

[CelebFanatic91]

Why is this in Comic Sans?

[MrSkyydude]

okay buddy. first off who really knows? but most text books say he married at 18 to a older woman who had a little money and a little land and he didn't live with her most of his days. Most scholar speculate he was a gold digger. Many have theories that he was gay. @sea2007w1

[elizabeth20072008]

I like his quote. But really confused , why many British men wearing earrings on their left ear? What this means?

[111danwatts]

@elizabeth20072008 if you have your right ear pierced then it is considered that you are gay

[2012UKOlympics]

MILLENNIUM SHAKESPEARE art exhibition ... M.S.A.E. during the Olympics 2012 - Artists from around the world, Japan, England, France, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Iran, USA, and many many more....Michael J Stewart creator and Visionary of Millennium Shakespeare began his series of Books for children in 1998....to introduce Shakespeare to a young audience...Come and see his Amazing Art Exhibition....click on 2012ukolympics

[bryngOneOn]

these quotation are but noise or scribbling on page when taken without the milk and sugar of context, they become nada more than sound bites, it is how the sentence relates to the rest of the piece in terms of meaning and conjouring imagery and to a lesser degree rythmn and pacing. oscar wilde uttered great sound bites and in that way he looked a great wit and master of language but his full pieces lacked genius, this is no way to show shine of shakespeare's talent

[heliotropezzz333]

I'm a third highbrow, a third middle brow and a third low brow. My brow's in a mess frankly. Will this do?

[fredmatthews]

Hello All, I am currently conducting Academic Research into the highbrow and lowbrow of Online community groups- In one word, if you like (eg Highbrow or Lowbrow) how would you rank yourselves as users of this site? Are you discerning over the content and communities you take part in and consume online? Has this video above got higher cultural value than a video of, say, a cat on treadmill...not that that exists on Youtube(that I know of...)

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

[heliotropezzz333]

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

[bryngOneOn]

what is this thing you written heliotropezzz? is it a self indulgent exercise or a genuine offering to be judged by those who have interest in such matters. Maybe it's just an exercise in mixed metaphors with my favourite line "waking shadow, a poor player" it conjours an image of a parrot squawking taught mimicry. no changed mind. "signifying nada" is my favourite line. but your aving a go and that's wonderful

[heliotropezzz333]

bryngOneOn.Not sure which comment you are referring to but all the poetry is from Shakespeare's plays. It's not mine. I just just quoted it, it because they are some of my favourite bits - so it's self indulgent I suppose, as you say, but I thought others might enjoy it, or quote their own favourite bits.

[bryngOneOn]

if it's not urs then plz forgiveme , esp for any rudeness that may have been conveyed, it just felt like shakespeare lite to me, again sorry for any presumptions upon my part

[heliotropezzz333]

No problem. I'm not offended.

[heliotropezzz333]

Where the bee sucks. there suck I:

In a cowslip's bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat's back I do fly

After summer merrily.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

[heliotropezzz333]

Light thickens; and the crow

Makes wing to the rooky wood:

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

[chasteali]

What a piece of work is man!

How noble in reason!

How infinite in faculties!

In form and moving, how express and admirable!

In action, how like an angel!

In apprehension, how like a god!

The beauty of the World!

The paragon of animals!

[XXdrunkangelXX]

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom

-William Shakespeare

[TheeMovieMan]

William Shakespeare is my ancestor

[MANSHOTS]

then you sell me a W.S. personally autographed copy of Hamlet and I will mark it up to only double price on e bay for the enghigh101 and heliotropezzz333 of the world.

[TheeMovieMan]

How the hell is that proof that im related to him?

[MANSHOTS]

It's not, but through the family heirlooms, the listed beneficiaries on Willie's Last Will and Testament, and the beneficiaries on his Estate, there is probably a living ancestral beneficiary that you personally know that is collecting on autographed residuals copies of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet etc. and I can't get these at the local Barnes and Nobel. So if you ARE his relative you probably could prove it by placing these photos on your personal YT page.

[heliotropezzz333]

Manshots, I don't know if you are still visiting this site but if Shakespeare's so bad, how come the tickets for Hamlet in London have sold out rapidly and there are two versions of Hamlet on at the same time. O.K so David Tennant who plays Dr Who, is playing Hamlet, but tickets would not sell if it was a bad experience

[MANSHOTS]

heliotropezzz333 in New York City, tickets were sold out for the final Mets and Yankees baseball games ever played at their classic stadiums before they were both turned into parking lots. People will throw away their entire paycheck to be a part of the limelight no matter how crappy the venue. look at all the parents in the U.S. that pay $2,000 of their paycheck to force their kids to go to day camp for the summer.

[heliotropezzz333]

Sounds like they don't like their kids to want to send them away. Sounds worse than making them learn Shakespeare at school.

[MANSHOTS]

"Brevity is the soul of wit". In other words "less is more". So why do American teachers force 20 generations of their students to read 700 pages full of Billy's jargon, that isn't even in English spoken today, that 1/3 of the world understands.

[heliotropezzz333]

Because it's good for the soul Manshots. These days most learning is geared to mundane things that help you earn a living. It's good to do something just for its own sake sometimes Will did not write in jargon. He wrote poetically."If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you did but slumber here, while these visions did appear. " Cool ending to a play. Do you know which one?

[MANSHOTS]

re: "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you did but slumber here, while these visions did appear. " Cool ending to a play. Do you know which one?

Thou couldn't givest a damn whetherest it's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth or tmaing of the shrew, probably thou guesses it's macbeth. Howeverest Manshots used to be required to read this unjargon, and Billy's overlooked subliminal messages are actually today his most important aspects not his plays.

[heliotropezzz333]

Answer: Midsummer Night's Dream,

Hmm! Not sure Billy's messages were subliminal.  They weren't hidden in any way. It's outdated language in places, sure, but not jargon. I think he would have been good at soundbites though, if he lived now. Anyway, if we only do easy things there's no achievement. Like playing against a team who's bottom of the league, and sometimes it's good to leave our comfort zones. Nuff said! Now you have a choice and no one can force it on you.

[MANSHOTS]

heliotropezzz333, I don't know. Looking back to my years in the school system, I think that the purpose of giving students his plays to read were just the school's attempt to compete neck in neck with the entertainment world on television. Reading his works are certainly more difficult than watching TV but not necessarily more educational and worthwhile.