shakespeare

—Oswald: What dost thou know me for?—Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition … Read more

“Yet Brutus is Everyman in the sense that every man is Brutus at some hour of his life. Whoever is aware of the parity between what he would be and what the world seems bent on making him is a Brutus in a general sense. More specifically, Brutus is the man of sensitive nature who, … Read more

“It is as if Shakespeare were confirming Dostoievsky, and Dostoievsky Shakespeare. Only very ingenious persons will think that these two supreme students of the human mind, because they do not express themselves in scientific nomenclature or in the language of the twentieth century, must have been ignorant of truths that psychology is only now beginning … Read more

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.” The … Read more

“Am I myself possibly, thanks to one or more of them, living in a golden world?Those who might be compelled to answer “yes” to this last question will generally be protected from asking it. Some instinct of self-preservation —or fear of death— will keep them from seeking where they might discover, could they understand them, … Read more