Quotations

Damn, you know A LOT of Shakespeare.

Maybe we should read Paradise Lost? I've definitely not read it at least a dozen times.

As we both know, I love when writers use quotations. In fact, I love them so much, that I am going to type all of the chapter-beginning quotations from this book here for the SECOND TIME (the first time I did this, my Firefox cut out. Pissed). Even without reading the book, you can understand the plot arc through the quotations:

"A deed of dreadful note." - Macbeth

"The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come." - Troilus and Cressida

"Confusion now hath made his master-piece;
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stolen thence
The life of the building." - Macbeth

"Something is rotten in the State of Denmark." - Hamlet

"And often-times, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence." - Macbeth

"Oh! she has beauty might ensnare
A conqueror's soul, and make him leave his crown
At random, to be scuffled for by slaves." - Otway

"For this relief much thanks." - Hamlet

"O dark, dark, dark!" - Uncredited in novel, but by Milton

"His rolling Eies did never rest in place,
But walkte each where for feare of hid mischance,
Holding a lattis still before his Face,
Through which he still did peep as forward he did pace." - Faerie Queene

"There's nothing ill
Can dwell in such a temple." - Tempest

"The pink of courtesy." - Romeo and Juliet

"Constant you are -
...And for secrecy
No lady closer." - Henry IV

"But who would force the soul, tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant." - Wordsworth

"Nay, but hear me." - Measure for Measure

"It is not and it cannot come to good." - Hamlet

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven." - All's Well that Ends Well

"Vous regardez une etoile pour deux motifs, parce qu'elle est lumineuse et parce qu'elle est impenetrable. Vous aveze aupres de vous un plus doux rayonnement et us pas grand mystere, la femme." - Les Miserables

"You cannot say I did it." - Macbeth

"Something between an hinderance and a help." - Wordsworth

"Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day walks to-morrow." - Coleridge

"True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain
Begot of nothing but vain phantasy." - Romeo and Juliet

"Come, give us a taste of your quality." - Hamlet

"Fe, fi, fo fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman" - Old Song

"I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted." - Measure for Measure

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where Hope is coldest, and Despair most sits." - All's Well that Ends Well

"Look here upon this picture and on this." - Hamlet

"Sits the wind in that corner?" - Much Ado about Nothing

"A merrier man
Within the limits of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal." - Love's Labour's Lost

"Flat burglary as ever was committed." - Much Ado about Nothing

"I fled and cried out death." - Milton

"I could have better spared a better man." - Henry IV

"Thereby hangs a tale." - Taming of the Shrew

"Cursed, destructive Avarice,
Thou everlasting foe to Love and Honor." - Trap's Abram

" - Mischief never thrives
Without the help of Woman." - The Same

Pol. "What do you red, my lord?"
Ham. "Words, words, words." - Hamlet

"It out-herods Herod." - Hamlet

"A thing devised by the enemy." - Richard III

"No hinge nor loop
To hang a doubt on!"
"But yet the pity of it, Iago! Oh, Iago, the pity of it, Iago." - Othello

"This is the short and the long of it." - Merry Wives of Windsor

"Saint seducing gold." - Romeo and Juliet

"When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors." - Macbeth

"Between the acting of a dreadful thing,
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream;
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are there in council; and the state of a man,
Like to a little Kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection." - Julius Caesar

"Leave her to Heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge
To prick and sting her." - Hamlet

"For she is wise, if I can judge of her;
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true;
And true she is, as she has proved herself;
And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant soul." - Merchant of Venice