friends romans countrymen lend me your ears

I’d tried it out several times in conversation with positive results. Normally, people immediately associate with that. Undeterred, I launched into why I wrote and what my novels were about.

My local book club only manages to read wine labels.”) They met with a stony silence. It seems far more impressive than my own. (“Thank you for inviting me to your Book Club. I attempted to break the ice with a few feeble jokes. Still, humour is always welcome, no matter what genre you write, so I always try to start off on a positive note. Okay, I can be funny, especially if I have had a glass or two of wine, but in this situation I had been invited to talk about publishing. People think if you write humour you are a comic – well, I’m not. The problem was, they were a tough crowd, tougher than usual, because they had been kept waiting. They had consumed all the fruit cake and coffee assigned for a half-time interval. Through no fault of my own I turned up late, hot and bothered, to face a crowd of grumpy women who had been sitting around for over half an hour. I’d prepared what I considered to be a cheerful and upbeat talk. It consisted of formidable and rather clever ladies who were semi-reluctant to let an upstart like me come and talk to them. It took place in an intimidating, sprawling house where the sitting room was the size of my entire bungalow. My first speech as an author was to a book club. Some of the IU team are very gifted in that direction), or are blessed with oratory prowess. We rarely employ rhetorical irony to win over our listeners (actually, I take that bit back. We are not practised in such verbal skills. *Julius Caesar may have been a great statesman and a gifted orator but we are merely authors.

Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me.Got your first author gig? Giving a speech? That first speech or book signing event can be pretty daunting. O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him. You all did love him once, not without cause. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse, was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure, he is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill, Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept, ambition should be made of sterner stuff, Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honorable man. He was my friends, faithful and just to me, But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, For Brutus is an honorable man, So are they all, all honorable men, Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious, if it were so it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones, so let it be with Caesar.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,įriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Friends romans countrymen lend me your ears