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Any good Shakespeare quotes for this?

36 replies

PigeonFromHell · 24/10/2018 14:22

Something for a professional work situation that says:
Oh for fucks sake,
you're taking the piss,
or you fucking what?

Something that stops me swearing while also sounding cultured.

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AddictedToTea · 24/10/2018 19:47

‘Go shake your ears’ (Maria to Malvolio in Twelfth Night) Basically the 16th century way of saying ‘Go f*ck yourself!’

PigeonFromHell · 24/10/2018 19:47

I do like that one Mammysin, I like to think I'd use as a retort to a poor chat up line should the occasion ever require it.

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LeNil · 24/10/2018 19:52

“Give thy thoughts no tongue” Hamlet
“there’s many a man hath more hair than wit” Comedy of Errors
“Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuits after voyage” As you like it, but it has a ring of Blackadder about it.

LeNil · 24/10/2018 20:06

Just thought of another

“Art thou a comedian?” Twelfth Night

tenorladybeaker · 24/10/2018 20:10

A pox on your throat
You boring, blasphemous uncharitable goat.

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

onceandneveragain · 24/10/2018 20:17

"[insert annoying colleague's name] speaks an infinite deal of nothing.” (The Merchant of Venice). Pithy and precise!

Also agree you could get far with rolled eyes and a muttered "Lord, what fools these mortals be!” (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

I like the 'battle of wits' one but I think it's one of those falsely attributed ones... found a few suggesting it was As you like it but I can't find any evidence for it.

PhilomenaDeathsHeadHawkMoth · 24/10/2018 20:21

Mammysin Grin

longwayoff · 24/10/2018 20:48

Last time I heard "battle of wits" was in a recent Upstart Crow.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 24/10/2018 21:30

That battle of wits one isn’t Shakespeare though.

theOtherPamAyres · 24/10/2018 22:03

Go thy ways! meaning
"Go thy ways. I begin to be aweary of thee.
(All's Well that Ends Well)

Pish! meaning
'It is not words that shakes me thus! Pish!' (Othello)

Tilly-Vally!

"Draw, you rascal! Come your ways!' (King Lear)

tenorladybeaker · 24/10/2018 22:56

Quote Investigator's research on the battle-of-wits-unarmed quote.

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