# The reply is a Shakespeare quote **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 3, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605 "2012-03-03T00:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/1 "2012-03-03T00:43:55Z")
[Your decision as to whether it is a sequitur or non-sequitur reply] Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/2 "2012-03-03T00:48:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > … of most excellent fancy. Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/3 "2012-03-03T01:03:30Z")
“My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy” ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/4 "2012-03-03T11:22:25Z")
And a play’s the thing, wherein we’ll catch the conscience of the king. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/5 "2012-03-03T11:25:51Z")
Conscience is but a word that cowards use. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/6 "2012-03-03T13:52:55Z")
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:** ![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:** [March 3, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/7 "2012-03-03T15:33:41Z")
But, good my brother, Do not as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/8 "2012-03-03T16:40:35Z")
"The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven. " Feste, the Fool, in _ **Twelfth Night** _ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-shakespeare-quote/614605/9 "2012-03-03T16:59:48Z")
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . . The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.