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" But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 282
1821
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses

Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...hear the sounds of the court's carouse. Horatio asks: "Is it a custom? HAMLET: Ay, marry is't. / But to my mind, though I am native here / And to the manner.../ More honour'd in the breach than the observance. / This heavyheaded revel east and west / Makes us traduced and tax'd of [censured by] other nations"...
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On Strangeness

Margaret Bridges - 1990 - 244 pages
...Casebook 170-87. Rewriting Shakespeare: Travesty and Tradition Neil Forsyth For this relief, much thanks Though I am native here, and to the manner born It is a custom more honoured in the breach Than in the observance Well. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. To...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, 25 But 2m N z xZ , [`Y e 2 t J h ] v !!5S e bH #<bh0oh cf( 8~ B honored in the breach than the observance. (I, iv) NAWM-1 26 I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO Is it a custom? HAMLET Ay marry is't; But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.22 This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduced...
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Hamlet

1996 - 264 pages
...thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO V/O Is it a custom? HAMLET V/O Ay, marry is 't, But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east and west Cut to: Interior...
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Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary ...

C. C. Barfoot - 1997 - 612 pages
...feasting going on below, Horatio asks Hamlet if it is a custom. Hamlet replies: Ay marry is't, But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner...custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. (Liv.13-16) 22. It may be obvious that in my support of Sir Thomas Browne, I implicitly adopt a stance...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...belief in political obedience arising from habit, as opposed to consent through a "social contract." And to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet....
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. 10196 Hamlet But a fair son, and I am but a barren stock. 3280 (to troops at Tilbury on approach o honoured in the breach than the observance. 10197 Hamlet Something is rotten in the state of Denmark....
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Tom Stoppard - 1998 - 226 pages
...cut-out grave for OPHELIA.) PROLOGUE Enter SHAKESPEARE, bows. SHAKESPEARE: For this relief, much thanks. Though I am native here, and to the manner born, It is a custom more honoured in the breach Than in the observance Well. Something is roñen in the state of Denmark. To...
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The First Quarto of Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1998 - 148 pages
...(s«/'sr), kettle Drum F, Q2 (subst.I 10 triumphs] QI (subst.I; triumph F, Q2 HAMLET Ay, marry is't, and though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than in the observance. En1er the GHOST HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes! HAMLET...
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