# Can you identify this quotation. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843 "2006-10-25T14:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/1 "2006-10-25T14:54:25Z")
Yeah, you thought I had the material, but I don’t. Sorry. I am looking to cover a bulletin board with some inspirational words. And I remember this part from a movie I can’t name. It had Danny Devito in it and he was teaching a bunch of army recruits Shakespeare, I think. One of them, later in the movie, stands up and quotes Shakespeare about battle and fighting. Yeah, that quotation. You see my problem, don’t know the name of the film, or what work the quote is from. So I thought I’d ask here as you are a mighty clever resource for this sort of thing. I’m also looking for a transcript of the speach from Braveheart, but have been unsuccessful even though I KNOW the name of the movie, :smack: . (Now that you can see the sort of thing I’m aiming for, please feel free to make your own suggestions on what else should be included!) Thank you in advance for your cleverness . I will beseach the God’s to shower you with heaven’s finest blessings in exchange for your kindness. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/2 "2006-10-25T15:05:37Z")
Howzabout - > [@](#): > > ``` > Domestic fury and fierce civil strife > Shall cumber all the parts of Italy. > Blood and destruction shall be so in use, > And dreadful objects so familiar, > That mothers shall but smile when they behold > Their infants quartered with the hands of war, > All pity choked with custom of fell deeds, > And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, > With Ate by his side come hot from hell, > Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice > Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war, > That this foul deed shall smell above the earth > With carrion men, groaning for burial. > > ``` From Julius Ceasar? Movie was Renaissance Man, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/3 "2006-10-25T15:05:43Z")
Sounds like “Renaissance Man” (1994), in which, as I recall, the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V figures. > [@](#): > > And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, > From this day to the ending of the world, > But we in it shall be remembered- > We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; > For he to-day that sheds his blood with me > Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, > This day shall gentle his condition; > And gentlemen in England now-a-bed > Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, > And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks > That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/4 "2006-10-25T15:06:32Z")
The movie is [Renaissance Man](http://imdb.com/title/tt0110971/). I don’t really recall that speech, but [Wiki says](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Man) it is the St. Crispin’s Day speech given by King Henry V. [Full text here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Crispin%27s_Day_Speech). ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/5 "2006-10-25T15:07:41Z")
Well, the film’s [Renaissance Man,](http://imdb.com/title/tt0110971/) but since haven’t seen it, I can’t help with that particular quotation you’re after – remember anything else about it? Braveheart quotations can be found [here.](http://imdb.com/title/tt0112573/quotes) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/6 "2006-10-25T15:09:26Z")
From the description, it sounds like it came from _Renaissance Man_, but the IMDB didn’t list any specific Shakespeare quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/7 "2006-10-25T15:10:47Z")
The movie with Danny DeVito is called [Rennaisance Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110971/) . Unfortunately I am having trouble finding the quote you are looking for on that one. Here is the speech I think you mean from Braveheart. The link will take you to a full transcript. > [@](#): > > William: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace. > > Young soldier: William Wallace is 7 feet tall. > > William: Yes, I’ve heard. He kills men by the hundreds, and if he were > here he’d consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts > of lightning from his arse. I am William Wallace, and I see a whole > > army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come > > to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with > that freedom? Will you fight? > > Veteran soldier: Fight against that? No, we will run, and we will live. > > William: Aye, fight and you may die, run and you’ll live. At least a while. > And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to > trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one > chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take > our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom?! Alba gu bra! (Scotland > > forever!) > > SOURCE: [http://corky.net/scripts/braveheart.html](http://corky.net/scripts/braveheart.html) ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/8 "2006-10-25T15:45:21Z")
Or maybe it was _Get Shorty._ ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/9 "2006-10-25T17:27:37Z")
**Rio** by **Duran Duran** :rolleyes: Oh fine! /slinks away/ ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/10 "2006-10-25T17:51:30Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Sounds like “Renaissance Man” (1994), in which, as I recall, the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V figures. [/QUOTE] **bibliophage** nailed it. Renaissance Man, and the St. Crispin’s day speach from Henry 5. > [@](#): > > This day is called the feast of Crispian: > He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, > Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, > And rouse him at the name of Crispian. > He that shall live this day, and see old age, > Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, > And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian”: > Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. > And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.” It gives me shivers just to read that speech. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-quotation/377843/11 "2006-10-25T18:33:53Z")
[QUOTE=elbows] I’m also looking for a transcript of the speach from Braveheart, but have been unsuccessful even though I KNOW the name of the movie, :smack: [/QUOTE] William Wallace’s Speech before the Battle of Stirling i ? It’s just a matter of knowing where and how to look. 😉