"boys will be boys"
Indeed, although I'm pretty sure the sonnet is not from the play. It makes a couple of appearances in the film, though. Once it is read as a poem by a sunburnt Emma Thompson. Then it is sung by one of the prince's buddies, played by Patrick Doyle, who is better known as a soundtrack composer. The part where they take off their clothes happens after the poetry reading.
The taking off of clothes. Is it the women or the men? I don't want to go rent this movie to see men naked.
Both. Basically, the gals and old folks are lying around reading poetry when they get word that the prince and his men are approaching. So they go to the bath house to get all washed up. The prince and his gang arrive and do the same thing.
Not really anything to get all worked up about. If you want to see boobs, I'd suggest you just pick up your dirty laundry for a change and see if that gets you anywhere.
No doubt he was a very intelligent man. He did take it easier on me when he found out I was on my high school tennis team. That was until I made the mistake of telling him that the only reason I tried out for the team was because there were some really hot girls on the team. I mean really... doesn't every guy that plays tennis take up the game because of the girls in the short skirts?
"I always abide by the Bard's words." This was one of my lines from a play in HS. I recall a certain English teacher in HS who really knew how to get you interesred in Shakespeare. She let the boys split into groups and build models of the Globe Theatre. She told us some tid bits about WS that I will never forget: He made up the word "assassination", 13 is unlucky because there were 13 total suicides in his plays, none of his plays were published until after he died.
My favorite quote: "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose"
Dawgmatic, I see that yours is from Julius Caesar
Men, at times, are masters of their own fate.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars--but in ourselves
- Julius Caesar (possibly not perfect but pretty close I think)
All of Henry V's speech at Agincourt--love that. Branagh's take on courting his bride in that movie version is pretty funny.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
Merchant of Venice
Iago's quote about bewaring the "green eyed monster" is good (Othello)
Seems like I ought to be able to come up with something from Taming of the Shrew, but the best lines I can think of are from Kiss Me Kate