Episode 15

December 2004

The quote to guess was,
 Thou mak’st faults graces that to thee resort.
As on the finger of a throned queen,
The basest jewel will be well esteemed
The solution is "The Sonnets"

 

Other quotes from this episode.

For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where
Sonnets

CURTIS. Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?
GREMIO. She was, good Curtis before this frost; but, thou know'st, winter tames man, woman and beast.
Taming of the Shrew

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Sonnets

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans,
Why should a man whose blood is warm within
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?"
Merchant of Venice

"A good sherris-sack hath a two fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the crude, dull and foolish vapours which environ it: makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of quick, nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which deliver’d over to the voice (the tongue) which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The second property of an excellent sherris is, - the warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice: but the sherris warms it, makes it course from the inward to the parts extremes. It illumines the face: which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man to arms.
…… If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack.
King Henry IV p2

 

At Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish for snow in May's new fangled mirth,
But like of each thing as in season grows.
Love’s Labours Lost

 

"…. Or call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer’s welcome thrice more wished,
More rare"
Sonnets

"To me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me."
Hamlet

"His life was gentle: and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, This was a man"
Julius Caesar

"There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out."
King Henry V

"You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to make no noise,
When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven"
Merchant of Venice

"…. for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
(Hamlet)

"Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;
For I am sick when I do look on thee"
(Midsummer’s Night Dream)

"What, canst thou do all this, and never blush?"
Titus Andronicus

"O shame, where is thy blush!"
Hamlet

"This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard"
Midsummer’s Night Dream

"This is senseless speaking or speaking
such as sense cannot untie"
Cymbeline

Fat bellies have lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits
Love’s Labours Lost

….a surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings
(Midsummer’s Night Dream)

-Shakespeare's Views on the News-

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