Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts

Saturday, November 28, 2009

William Shakespeare: Love Guru


William Shakespeare was quite the Guru of Love as the following verses from his plays prove... Here's presenting selected gems from Shakespeare on Love starting with the arguably the most famous of them all:


Twelfth Night - Act 1, Scene 1
If music be the food of love, play on

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, Scene 1
Speak low if you speak love

Antony & Cleopatra - Act 1, Scene 1
There's beggary in love that can be reckoned

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 2
The course of true love never did run smooth

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 3, Scene 2
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps

Antony & Cleopatra - Act 5, Scene 5
The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is dersired

Henry VI Part 1 - Act 5, Scene 2
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 1
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

The Tempest - Act 3, Scene 1
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service

As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 5
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Romeo & Juliet - Act 1, Scene 1
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs

King Lear - Act 1, Scene 1
I love you more than workds can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 3, Scene 1
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 4
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 3, Scene 1
Whiat is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

The Merchant of Venice - Act 2, Scene 6
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit

Friday, November 27, 2009

Shakespearean Insults

This one is for all budding hip hop stars and rapsters - so you think you know a foul word or two? Shakespeare, even with his insults, put downs and cussing, was most certainly a master of his trade!



Shakespeare Insult 1 - As You Like It

Thou art like a toad; ugly and venemous.

Shakespeare Insult 2 - The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man!

Shakespeare Insult 3 - The Tempest

Thine forward voice, now, is to speak well of thine friend; thine backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Shakespeare Insult 4 - Measure For Measure

Thou art a flesh-monger, a fool and a coward.

Shakespeare Insult 5 - All's Well That Ends Well

A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

Shakespeare Insult 6 - Cymbeline

Thy tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

Shakespeare Insult 7 - Henry IV Part 2

You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!

Shakespeare Insult 8 - All's Well That Ends Well

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

Shakespeare Insult 9 - The Winter's Tale

My wife's a hobby horse!

Shakespeare Insult 10 - Troilus and Cressida

Thou art as loathsome as a toad.

Shakespeare Insult 11 - Macbeth

Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver'd boy.

Shakespeare Insult 12 - Henry IV Part 1

Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!

Shakespeare Insult 13 - Measure for Measure

A flesh monger, a fool, and a coward.

Shakespeare Insult 14 - Henry IV Part 1

That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?

Shakespeare Insult 15 - Henry IV Part 1

You starvelling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, you bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish--O for breath to utter what is like thee!-you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!

Shakespeare Insult 16 - Henry IV Part 1

Peace, ye fat guts!

Shakespeare Insult 17 - Henry V

There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

Shakespeare Insult 18 - Richard III

Thou poisonous bunch-back'd toad!

Shakespeare Insult 19 - Richard III

Thou art unfit for any place but hell.

Shakespeare Insult 20 - Hamlet

Thou are pigeon-liver'd and lack gall.

Shakespeare Insult 21 - All's Well That Ends Well

Your virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese.

Shakespeare Insult 22 - Henry V

Thine face is not worth sunburning.

Shakespeare Insult 23 - As You Like It

Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.

Shakespeare Insult 24 - Henry IV Part

You are as a candle, the better burnt out.

Shakespeare Insult 25 - Hamlet

If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.

Shakespeare Insult 26 - Measure For Measure

Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.

Shakespeare Insult 27 - Cymbeline

Thy tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

Shakespeare Insult 28 - All's Well That Ends Well

Your virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese.

Shakespeare Insult 29 - All's Well That Ends Well

A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

Shakespeare Insult 30 - Henry IV part 2

You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!

Shakespeare Insult 31 - Macbeth

Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver'd boy.

Shakespeare Insult 32 - All's Well That Ends Well

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

Shakespeare Insult 33 - Troilus and Cressida

Thou art as loathsome as a toad.

Shakespeare Insult 34 - Measure for Measure

A flesh monger, a fool, and a coward.

Shakespeare Insult 35 - Henry IV part 1

Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!

Shakespeare Insult 36 - Henry IV part 1

That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?

Shakespeare Insult 37 - Henry IV part 1

You starvelling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, you bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish--O for breath to utter what is like thee!-you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!

Source: http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-insults.htm