A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for th...
CHARLES DICKENS A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to k...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER To be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless...
LEMONY SNICKET I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discour...
C. J. MAHANEY O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to k...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My name is not 'William Shatner.'
CHRIS PINE Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of you...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
PETER PORTER A man whose heart gets broken easily finds his mind awakened.
ANUJ SOMANY A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He's not as easily moved as he once was.
JEFF EVENS Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may no...
SHARON SALZBERG Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
IAN MCEWAN We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
SIMON CALLOW A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly.
One day you are just a memb...
JOHNA PASSARO A heavy stone is not easily moved.
TURKISH PROVERB Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER O Holy Spirit, give me a simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, ...
LEONCE DE GRANDMAISON She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in...
BIBLE A wife is not a pot, she will not break so easily
RUSSIAN PROVERB It's definitely not for the easily offended,
GLENN HOWERTON Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
RYAN HOLIDAY The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
TED RALL Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA A threefold cord is not easily broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12).
BIBLE I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too ...
BEAU TAPLIN Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this rel...
WALTER KAUFMANN