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  • #16
    I will not yield,
    To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet
    And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
    Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
    And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
    Yet I will try the last. Before my body
    I throw my warlike shied, Lay on, Macduff,
    And damned be him that first cries 'Hold, enough!'
    [exit fighting. alarms. Re-enter fighting, and Macbeth slain.]
    To The Hijack Police: I don't know what you are talking about. I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I don't even own a computer.

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    • #17
      Ah, obi saves us all.
      John Brown did nothing wrong.

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      • #18
        Nah, I don't really want to do it. Just sniping at Billy.
        "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
        -Bokonon

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        • #19
          "Out, damned spot."
          -Lady MacBeth

          "Something something Tale Told by an Idiot etc. Sound and the Fury."
          -MacBeth

          "Bugger off, I'm George Orwell!"
          -George Orwell

          Is there an online Shakespeare source y'all are using for the text?
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          • #20
            You can just type in the name of the play you remember it from. They're all online. Although if someone finds a good complete source, they really ought to post a link.
            John Brown did nothing wrong.

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            • #21
              I am using my "William Shakespheare: The Complete Works" published by Penguin Books.
              Please don't tell Sir Penguin.
              To The Hijack Police: I don't know what you are talking about. I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I don't even own a computer.

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              • #22
                Not my first post...

                For others, I'm just googling as fast as needed.

                It's a challenge.

                Loin:

                She should have died hereafter,
                There would have been time for such a word.

                Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
                Creeps in this petty place from day to day,
                From 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.
                'Tis a tale as told by an idiot,
                Full of sound and fury,
                Signifying nothing.
                Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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                • #23
                  "Cry Havoc! And let's slip the dogs a war..."
                  Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                  • #24
                    "GLOUCESTER:
                    But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year
                    elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:
                    though this knave came something saucily into the
                    world before he was sent for, yet was his mother
                    fair; there was good sport at his making, and the
                    whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this
                    noble gentleman, Edmund?"

                    Man, Gloucester was a bastard, eh?

                    "CORDELIA:
                    Good my lord,
                    You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I
                    Return those duties back as are right fit,
                    Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
                    Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
                    They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
                    That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
                    Half my love with him, half my care and duty:
                    Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,
                    To love my father all."

                    "Fool:
                    Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the
                    seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.

                    KING LEAR:
                    Because they are not eight?

                    Fool:
                    Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool."

                    I love King Lear.
                    "I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" -Frank Zappa
                    "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."- Thomas Paine
                    "I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." -Bob Dylan

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                    • #25
                      I'm partial to Hamlet...

                      "I am but mad North-North west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."

                      And

                      "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one to mock your own grinning?"

                      And then there's the obligatory 'To be or not to be' reference, but since every sane person already knows that one I'll refrain.
                      Talent Optional

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                      • #26
                        Portia's rapier wit in The Merchant of Venice

                        The two footsoldiers telling Henry V (incognito) that they would follow him anywhere because he knew what it was like to be a grunt.

                        Its too late to bother with specific references.
                        Old posters never die.
                        They j.u.s.t..f..a..d..e...a...w...a...y....

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                        • #27
                          Well of course the obvious. MacBeth ~ Bubble bubble toil and trouble.

                          Several from Romeo and Juliet ~

                          ~O, be some other name!
                          What's in a name? that which we call a rose
                          By any other name would smell as sweet;

                          ~But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
                          Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
                          I should have been more strange, I must confess,
                          But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
                          My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
                          And not impute this yielding to light love,
                          Which the dark night hath so discovered.

                          ~But to be frank, and give it thee again.
                          And yet I wish but for the thing I have:
                          My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
                          My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
                          The more I have, for both are infinite.

                          ~If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
                          Welcome to earth, my name is Tia and I'll be your tour guide for this trip.
                          Succulent and Bejeweled Mother Goddess, who is always moisturised yet never greasy, always patient yet never suffers fools~Starchild
                          Dragons? Yup- big flying lizards with an attitude. ~ Laz
                          You are forgiven because you are FABULOUS ~ Imran

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                          • #28
                            Adam Smith:

                            Unless you are more specific, I can't pick the quote.

                            My fave line from Merchant of Venice:

                            "He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you ***** us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."

                            -Shylock
                            Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                            "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
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                            • #29
                              Adam Smith, again, from Henry V:

                              ***** me do I not bleed? Even Shakespeare gets censored!



                              BATES
                              Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know
                              enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if
                              his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes
                              the crime of it out of us.

                              WILLIAMS
                              But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath
                              a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and
                              arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join
                              together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at
                              such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a
                              surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind
                              them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their
                              children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die
                              well that die in a battle; for how can they
                              charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their
                              argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it
                              will be a black matter for the king that led them to
                              it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of
                              subjection.
                              Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                              "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
                              2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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                              • #30
                                Remember, you can ***** your finger, but don't finger your *****.


                                I'm quite partial to the one in my sig, natch. It would take hours to list all my favorites... I've read nearly all of the plays, I'd like to buy the old video collection that the RSC made of all of 'em back in the 70s.
                                "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                                "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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