by compound complex 12 Replies latest social current
Would you have me false to my nature?
Rather say I play the man I am.
Coriolanus 3 ii
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
Hamlet 1 iii
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Hamlet 3 iv
Give me the man
That is not passion's slave, and I will
wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of
hearts.
Hamlet 3 ii
Claudio: "Done to death by slanderous tongue Was the Hero that here lies"
Men of few words are the best men.
Henry the Fifth 3 ii
I always liked "assume the virtue if you have it not" I probably quote it wrongly, but it is useful advice. Maybe not what Shakespeare meant, but I always took it as advice to pretend I'm confident, for instance, even if I'm not. As for vices and virtues, I like "yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
Men of few words are the best men.
That's me.
At work, they call me "invisible" and "silent assassin".
Warlock
Men's evil manners live in brass;
Their virtues we write in water.
Henry the Eighth 4 ii
Some of that stuff sounds like what's in the Bible.
What if Shakespeare was substituted for the Bible?
I really like his writing, if that is his writing. I don't understand some of the words, though.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
If I be an unvirtuous man, how may I to mine ownself be true?
Yet I know myself to be virtuous - and for the next man, the positive affirmations of clothing himself in being virtuous may in the end guide him to become so...
