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bmichaelh

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11. From Shakespeare
Thu Jul 16, 2026, 11:23 PM
Thursday

Here are some Shakespeare quotations in reference to his speech:

LORD E
He’s a most notable coward, an infinite
and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner
of no one good quality.
--Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well 3.6.9-11

PAROLES
He will lie, sir, with such volubility
that you would think truth were a fool.
--Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well 4.3.248-49

MENENIUS
There is no more
mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
--Shakespeare, Coriolanus 5.4.28-29

PISANIO
[His] tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
--Shakespeare, Cymbeline 3.4.34-35

MACBETH
[This] is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--Shakespeare, Macbeth 5.5.25-27

PROSPERO
Thou liest, malignant thing!
--Shakespeare, The Tempest 1.2.257

MARCUS
He takes false shadows for true substances.
--Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus 3.2.81

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