O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!
William ShakespeareTags: falstaff poins prince-hal
Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty. Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
William ShakespeareTags: falstaff
Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
William ShakespeareTags: falstaff
I’ll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,—
William ShakespeareTags: falstaff
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?
William ShakespeareTags: funny insult falstaff prince-hal
If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.
W.H. AudenTags: shakespeare mozart opera wagner falstaff verdi
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
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