English Cosmos by Dr Mukesh Pareek

Laertes O, fear me not. I stay too long: but here my father comes. Enter Polonius A double blessing is a double grace, Occasion smiles upon a second leave. Lord Polonius Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they ...

Salerio Why, I am sure if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh. What’s that good for? Shylock To  bait  fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and  hindered me half a million,  laughed at my losses,  mocked  at my gains, scorned  my nation , thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what’s the reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,  dimensions,  senses, affections,  passions?  Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?  If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.  If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. I...

Speech: “Now is the winter of our discontent” BY  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (from Richard III, spoken by Gloucester) Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my...

the most quoted  English writer , Shakespeare has more than his share of famous quotes.  Some Shakespeare quotes are known for their beauty, some for their everyday truths and some for their wisdom. We often talk about Shakespeare’s quotes as things the wise Bard is saying to us but we should remember that some of his wisest words are spoken by  his biggest fools . For example, both ‘neither a borrower nor a lender be,’ and ‘to thine own self be true’ are from the foolish, garrulous and quite disreputable  Polonius in Hamlet . Whilst it’s hard to definitively say which are Shakespeare’s most famous quotes, we’ve examined polls published around the world and combined these with feedback from our millions of users, plus our  50 Of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes 1. ‘ To be, or not to be: that is the question’ ( Hamlet  Act 3, Scene 1) 2. ‘ All the world ‘s a stage , and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one ...