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William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting from the Court's decision in King v.Burwell, upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, repeatedly used the construction to criticize the Court's majority opinion, stating: "Understatement, thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act!"; "Impossible possibility, thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act!"; and ...
Also used by Wilfred Owen for the title of a poem regarding World War I, Dulce et Decorum Est (calling it "the old Lie"). dulce et utile: a sweet and useful thing / pleasant and profitable: Horace, Ars Poetica: poetry must be dulce et utile, i.e., both enjoyable and instructive. dulce periculum: danger is sweet: Horace, Odes, 3 25, 16.
The following are among the most notable examples of songs in Shakespeare's plays: "Full Fathom Five" in The Tempest, I, 2 "How Should I Your True Love Know?" in Hamlet IV, 5 "It Was a Lover and His Lass" in As You Like It V, 3 "O Mistress Mine" in Twelfth Night, II, 3 "Sigh No More" in Much Ado About Nothing, II, 3
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]
The Dire Straits songs makes use of certain aspects of Shakespeare's play, as well as elements of some of the play's stage and screen adaptations. It also purposely diverges from the play's plot and characterizations in certain respects (such as Juliet's reaction to being approached by Romeo). [179] "Rusty James" ¡Uno! Green Day: Rumble Fish ...
I think we can all agree that life is much better whenever we are able to extend a helping hand towards others. But in the rush of each day, it can be hard to step back and remember that ...
Give a dog a bad name and hang him; Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Give a man rope enough and he will hang himself; Give credit where credit is due; Give him an inch and he will take a mile; Give the devil his/her due; God helps those who help themselves