Posted on 09/21/2016 12:54:59 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I’ll leave it to you to match today’s politicians with the quotes that best suit them:
1) “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (“Hamlet”)
2) “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” (“Hamlet”)
3) “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.” (“King Lear”)
4) “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.” (“Macbeth”)
5) “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” (“Richard II”)
6) “Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.” (“Richard III”)
7) “The commonwealth is sick of their own choice.” (“Henry IV, Part II”)
8) “Virtue is choked with foul ambition.” (“Henry VI, Part II”)
9) “He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.” (“Julius Caesar”)
And No. 10? It’s from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” While it has little to do with politics, it seems perfectly fitting for our current election scene: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
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Parry on.
“But custom what they did begin was with long use account no sin.”
Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Act I, Scene I
“Sit you down Hillary, rest you.” (adapted from King Lear, “I Am the Walrus.”)
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks.
Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.
from King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” works for me.
Yeah that was the one I was thinking of too
” this country that was wont to conquer others hath made a shameful conquest of itself..”
“First we kill all the lawyers”....
Obvious one for Biden:
“How now wit? Wither wander you?” - As You Like It.
Very likely, actually spoken by AG Lynch to Comey:
“Be innocent of the knowledge my dearest Chuck.” - Macbeth
I preferred, “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”
Agatha Christie also used that for a Tommy and Tuppence title.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks DUMBGRUNT.
Limo lib leftie Tom Hanks was involved at one time in the Steppenwolf Theater (which was an improv group in Chicago; this info is based on a still photo of the group shown in the movie "Being John Malkovich"), which served him well the other day during a performance of Henry IV -- an audiience member fell ill, and to keep the show from ending prematurely, Hanks came to the stage and improv'ed until the emergency was dealt wth.
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