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BSquared18
08-05-2011, 12:37 PM
Hello,
I want to use the following quote from Shakespeare:
Listen to many,
speak to a few.
Most quotes you find online give a play or sonnet, etc as the source. All I've found for this quote is Shakespeare's name. Can anyone tell me where it came from?
Thanks,
Bill
wessexgirl
08-05-2011, 01:31 PM
Hello,
I want to use the following quote from Shakespeare:
Listen to many,
speak to a few.
Most quotes you find online give a play or sonnet, etc as the source. All I've found for this quote is Shakespeare's name. Can anyone tell me where it came from?
Thanks,
Bill
I think it's Polonius from Hamlet.
BSquared18
08-05-2011, 03:03 PM
Thanks. I thought it sounded like him but couldn't find it in any of the searchable versions of Shakespeare. After your response, I searched some more and discovered why. The original text is
Give every man thy ear,
but few thy voice;
Which sounds much better than the modern version.
Bill
Hopfrog
08-05-2011, 10:38 PM
Great Jesu, I am utterly scandalized that there are "updatings" or rewritings of Shakespeare!!! I must be living under a rock as I had absolutely no clue of this. I swoon with horror at the very idea!!! Eeeeeeeeek!
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