A True Shakespeare Geek

Found this while wandering the web and thought I'd post up. I didn't write this and want abosolutely no credit :)
Enjoy:

If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you act more in sorrow than in anger, if your wish is father to the thought, if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, if you have been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hoodwinked or in a pickle, if you have knitted your brows, made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, stood on ceremony, danced attendance (on your lord and master), laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift, cold comfort or too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days or lived in a fool's paradise - why, be that as it may, the more fool you, for it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare; if you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage, if you think it is high time and that that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and that truth will out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the crack of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then - to give the devil his due - if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head) you are quoting Shakespeare; even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you wish I were dead as a door-nail, if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot, then - by Jove! O Lord! Tut, tut! for goodness' sake! what the dickens! but me no buts - it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare. (Bernard Levin. From The Story of English. Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil. Viking: 1986).

Cause he's awesome \(^-^)/

SHAKESPEAAAAAH!!!
I find it amazin' that I haven't yet written anything about the Bard in my blog... and we're already on post 6!! So, random info time, Shakespeare created over 1700 words in his plays that are now used everyday. Here's just a few of his more famous ones:

accused
addiction
advertising
amazement
assassination
bandit
bedroom
birthplace
blanket
bloodstained (Trust him)
blushing
bet
bump
buzzer
champion
cold-blooded
Compromise
courtship
countless
critic
dauntless
Dawn
deafening
drugged (Found this funny for some reason)
epileptic (Othello suffered epileptic fits)
elbow (I want to know what people called their elbow before he came along)
excitement
Exposure
eyeball
fashionable (I'm willing to bet most girls I know won't believe me)
flawed
generous
gloomy
gossip
green-eyed (The green-eyed monster, mentioned in Othello ^^)
Gust
hint
hob-nob (I doubt he meant biscuits)
label
laughable
lonely
lower
luggage
majestic
mimic
moonbeam (Purdy)
mountaineer
negotiate
noiseless
obscene
Olympian
outbreak
puking (And you thought it was modern slang)
radiance
rant
remorseless
savagery
scuffle
secure
summit
swagger
torture
tranquil
undress
unreal
varied
vaulting
worthless
zany


More Shakespeare soon. Don't like it? Don't read it dahling.