You are quoting Shakespeare
Stand in a big circle. Speakers say lines, in turn, until the lines
are all used up. Everyone says the “chorus” together (that’s
wherever “ALL” appears).
- If you cannot understand my argument, and declare “It’s Greek
to me,”
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you claim to be more sinned against than sinning,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you recall your salad days,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you act more in sorrow than in anger,
- If your lost property has vanished into thin air,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you refuse to budge an inch,
- or play fast and loose,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you have been tongue-tied,
- a tower of strength,
- if you have knitted your brows,
- insisted on fair play,
- slept not one wink,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you have laughed yourself into stitches,
- had cold comfort,
- or too much of a good thing,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you believe that it is high time,
- or that the game is up,
- even if it involves your own flesh and blood,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- If you suspect foul play;
- if you have your teeth set on edge
- without rhyme or reason,
- then, to give the devil his due,
- if the truth were known,
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!
- Even if you bid me good riddance
- and send me packing;
- if you wish I were as dead as a doornail,
- or an eyesore,
- or a laughing stock,
- or a blinking idiot, then
- by Jove!
- O Lord!
- tut, tut!
- What the dickens!
- It is all one to me, for
ALL: YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!