# Shakespeare played by... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097 "2008-06-24T18:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/1 "2008-06-24T18:59:06Z")
_Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears._ Mike Tyson. _“A man can die but once”._ Rasputin _“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”_ Andrew J. Borden _Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog_ Jamie Olivier ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/2 "2008-06-24T19:38:09Z")
I love this - I need to come back since my mind is foggy right now - I just wanted to let you know that I think this is a great idea! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/3 "2008-06-24T19:45:58Z")
“God hath given you one face, and you paint yourselves another.” _Mary Kay_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/4 "2008-06-24T19:48:14Z")
_Why did you laugh when I said, “Man delights not me”?_ Tom Cruise ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/5 "2008-06-24T19:50:17Z")
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain…” _The Joker_ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/6 "2008-06-24T19:55:27Z")
_I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engend’ring of toads._ Donald Trump ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/7 "2008-06-24T20:00:55Z")
_O, what men dare do!_ Evel Knievel ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/8 "2008-06-24T20:07:07Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] _Why did you laugh when I said, “Man delights not me”?_ Tom Cruise [/QUOTE] You win! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/9 "2008-06-24T20:07:57Z")
_. . . I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er._ George W. Bush ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/10 "2008-06-24T20:10:22Z")
_Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day._ Hillary Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/11 "2008-06-24T20:11:33Z")
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” _James Cayne, Bear Stearns Cos._ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/12 "2008-06-24T20:11:53Z")
“Arroint Thee, thy Rump-Fed Runyon…” (Macbeth I.iii.6) —Kim Kardashian ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/13 "2008-06-24T20:36:11Z")
_Ah, why should wrath be mute and fury dumb I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done; Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did Would I perform, if I might have my will. If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul._ Dick Cheney _Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan’s black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood._ Louis Farrakhan ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/14 "2008-06-24T21:29:15Z")
_O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night._ Andrew Dice Clay ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/15 "2008-06-24T23:48:58Z")
_“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it”_ The Teeming Milions _“For you and I are past our dancing days”_ M.C. Hammer _“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”_ Cecil Adams ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/16 "2008-06-25T00:01:22Z")
_This day shall gentle his condition And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here And hold their manhood cheap…_ – John Wayne Bobbitt ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/17 "2008-06-25T00:06:53Z")
_Once more unto the breach dear friends…_ –Ron Jeremy ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/18 "2008-06-25T00:47:50Z")
_A plague on both your houses!_ –Paige Davis of “Trading Spaces.” ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/19 "2008-06-25T00:47:58Z")
_“Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”_ Edward R. Murrow ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/20 "2008-06-25T00:52:33Z")
_Out! Damned spot! Out, I say!_ Monica Lewinsky [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097.md?page=2)