Sc2 Quotes

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness; glad of other men’s good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.” (As You Like It, Act 3, Sc. 2.)

The desire to lift, the willingness to help, and the graciousness to give come from a heart filled with love. The poet wrote, ‘Love is the most noble attribute of the human soul.’ And William Shakespeare cautioned, ‘They do not love who do not show their love’ (Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 1, sc. 2, line 31).

The matter of the breath of the poor weighs upon Shakespeare and his characters. Cleopatra shudders at the thought that “mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded, And forced to drink their vapor.” (Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, Sc. 2.)

What is Life? (1) Tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (2) Dictionary definition in biology (chemical process within organic entities involving metabolism etc.) (3) Mrs Woolf: ‘Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.’ (4) Series of actual and hypothetical behavioural data which differ in certain assignable ways from data defining dead or inanimate entities. (5) That which the Lord infused into Adam. See Genesis 1. 4 [sc. 2. 7]. Which? Mental Cramp.