William Shakespeare Quote
MERCUTIO: Thou art like one of those fellows that whenhe enters the confines of a tavern claps me his swordupon the table and says God send me no need ofthee! and by the operation of the second cup draws iton the drawer, when indeed there is no need.BENVOLIO: Am I like such a fellow?MERCUTIO: Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thymood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody,and as soon moody to be moved.BENVOLIO: And what to?MERCUTIO: Nay, an there were two such, we shouldhave none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou!why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hairmore, or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thouwilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having noother reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what eyebut such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy headis as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thyhead hath been beaten as addle as an egg forquarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a man forcoughing in the street, because he hath wakened thydog that hath lain asleep in the sun: didst thou not fallout with a tailor for wearing his new doublet beforeEaster? with another, for tying his new shoes with oldriband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling!BENVOLIO: An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, anyman should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hourand a quarter.MERCUTIO: The fee-simple! O simple!
MERCUTIO: Thou art like one of those fellows that whenhe enters the confines of a tavern claps me his swordupon the table and says God send me no need ofthee! and by the operation of the second cup draws iton the drawer, when indeed there is no need.BENVOLIO: Am I like such a fellow?MERCUTIO: Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thymood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody,and as soon moody to be moved.BENVOLIO: And what to?MERCUTIO: Nay, an there were two such, we shouldhave none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou!why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hairmore, or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thouwilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having noother reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what eyebut such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy headis as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thyhead hath been beaten as addle as an egg forquarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a man forcoughing in the street, because he hath wakened thydog that hath lain asleep in the sun: didst thou not fallout with a tailor for wearing his new doublet beforeEaster? with another, for tying his new shoes with oldriband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling!BENVOLIO: An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, anyman should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hourand a quarter.MERCUTIO: The fee-simple! O simple!
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About William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".