{"id":1394720,"date":"2021-11-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1394720"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:51:35","slug":"shakespeare-quotes-for-when-your-relatives-ask-what-youre-doing-with-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/shakespeare-quotes-for-when-your-relatives-ask-what-youre-doing-with-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Quotes for When Your Relatives Ask What You’re Doing With Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If your family’s anything like mine, they always come to Thanksgiving dinner armed with a veritable tsunami of questions you don’t want to answer. Why don’t you have a boyfriend yet? What’s going on with your hair? Hey! Should we talk about politics? I think we should talk about politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if this year is little different, there’s no doubt your family members will pepper your Zoom calls with passive-aggressive queries about your life choices. The solution: quote Shakespeare at them, because it just so happens that the Bard of Avon himself has crafted the perfect response for every situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone asks how the semester is going:<\/strong>
“I have not slept one wink.”
\u2014Cymbeline,<\/em> Act 3, Scene 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they ask if you have a job yet:<\/strong>
“‘Tis neither here nor there.”
\u2014Othello<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they ask where you’re planning to go to college:<\/strong>
“What have I done that thou dar’st wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me?”
\u2014Hamlet<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they ask what you’re going to major in:<\/strong>
“Art and baleful sorcery.”
\u2014Henry VI Part 1, <\/em>Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone starts to talk about politics:<\/strong>
“What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!”
\u2014Henry IV Part 2, <\/em>Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone asks you about your love life:<\/strong>
“It hath the primal eldest curse upon ‘t.”
\u2014Hamlet, <\/em>Act 3, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your cousins who are the same age as you are actually succeeding at life:<\/strong>
“But how, but how? give me particulars.”
\u2014Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they ask you whatever happened to [insert the name of your ex]:<\/strong>
“She hath betray’d me and shall die the death.”
\u2014Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your grandma asks if you actually leave the house dressed like that:<\/strong>
“I’ll confine myself no finer than I am: these clothes are good enough to drink in.”
\u2014Twelfth Night<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a ridiculous argument breaks out at the dinner table:<\/strong>
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
\u2014Twelfth Night<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone comments on the fact that you’re going up for third helpings of everything:<\/strong>
“My poor body, madam, requires it.”
\u2014All’s Well That Ends Well,<\/em> Act 1, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone asks how your grades are:<\/strong>
“We have seen better days.”
\u2014As You Like It<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they ask why you don’t have a boyfriend yet:<\/strong>
“I am too blunt and saucy.”
\u2014Cymbeline,<\/em> Act 5, Scene 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they ask why you’re always playing on your phone:<\/strong>
“I am alone the villain of the earth.”
\u2014Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your Aunt Gertrude has had one glass of wine too many:<\/strong>
“Gertrude, do not drink.”
\u2014Hamlet<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re hanging out in the kitchen taking a break from the chaos and some relatives come in to chat:<\/strong>
“Do you look for ale and cakes here, you rude rascals?”
\u2014Henry VIII<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone asks you why you decided to cut your hair like that:<\/strong>
“Savage!”
\u2014Troilus and Cressida<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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