Daily Dialogue — January 11, 2017

Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay’d for. My blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory

Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in it,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

— Hamlet (2000), screen adaptation by Michael Almereyda, play by William Shakespeare

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Advice. Today’s recommendation by Will King.

Trivia: The only lines in the movie which are not from the original play are messages played by machines, or when the GraveDigger is singing a song (“All Along the Watchtower”).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Some famous advice from Polonius… delivered by Bill Murray.