Books and Biscuits discussion

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Danish pastry!

'Alas, poor Yorick, crumbs!

"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune cookies"

Twelth Night or What You Will

Sir Toby Belch (aptly named!)

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Henry IV, Part 2

all the other gifts appertinent man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.

Could have fooled me!

Macbeth
Porter
'Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock: and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

Macduff
What three things does drink especially provoke?

Porter
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.