William Shakespeare Quotes
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
This is generally true in politics.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English Writer, Hamlet, Act iii
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Calumnaire fortiter, et aliquid adhaerebit. See Pierre Beaumarchais for a later version of this political tactic.
Caesar's wife, Pompeia was rumored to have had an affair. Caesar started divorce proceedings, but in the trial he admitted that he had no evidence whatsoever of her alleged infidelities. He was then asked why he wanted to divorce her:
Comey was objecting to the firing of several Assistant Attorneys General whom he thought were victims of parisanship.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
