Tag: Comedies

  • September 2

    September 2

    You Can’t Keep Up


    Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall
    make your wit bankrupt.

    -Two Gentlemen of Verona,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • August 28

    August 28

    It’s Not That Kind of Joke, But It Could Be


    Away, you three-inch fool!

    -The Taming of the Shrew,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • August 22

    August 22

    Geography of Lust


    No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:
    she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her.

    -The Comedy of Errors,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • August 20

    August 20

    Accidental Virtues


    Though I am not naturally honest,
    I am so sometimes by chance.

    -The Winter’s Tale,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • August 8

    August 8

    God-Tier Whiner


    Thou art the Mars of malcontents. 

    — Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • August 5

    August 5

    Lake Superior


    You are idle shallow things: I am not of your element.

    –Twelfth Night, 
    Act III, Scene iv

  • August 3

    August 3

    Sworn to Spite


    You taught me language,
    and my profit on’t Is I know how to curse.

    –The Tempest,
    Act I, Scene ii