Lazy Rhetoric through Shakespeare

I’ve occasionally seen people quote or “sorta-quote” (misquote but almost get it right) Shakespeare to make some point about something non-Shakespearean, and sometimes, these people are lucky enough to have me nearby to say, “Oh, but context.” For example, do not try to use a quote by Mark Antony to soften honest critique of the dead. Yes, the good may lie interred in people’s bones. However, Antony built up Julius Caesar as a secular saint to lead a coup and to manipulate the plebeians, the citizens of Rome, out of a republic and into becoming subjects of an empire.