“You cannot stir things apart”
– Thomasina
"All my life's buried here, heap earth upon it"
“You cannot stir things apart”
– Thomasina
‘Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.’
Henry VIII: Act II Scene III
“It’s a good job we’re not having soup, or else I’d put me head in it and drown meself.”
– Shirley Valentine
“There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.”
– Guildenstern
“Justice and humaneness have never gone hand in hand. The law is not a sentimental comedy.”
– Captain Watkin Tench
‘… I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither…’
Hamlet: Act II, Scene II
(or Withnail – your choice)