A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE 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 "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 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 Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Please your eye and plague your heart.
WILLIAM COBBETT I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft both gave commencement speeches here.
MIKE ROGERS False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
MICHAEL CRICHTON 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 We're really honored that both houses supported the legislation.
JOSH EWING I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 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 Todo lo que he aprendido hoy en la clase sobre Shakespeare es que a veces tienes que enamorarte de l...
JACKSON PEARCE Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and you'll be the costumer who cried. 'Oh, ...
NATHAN LANE Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH 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 It's really important that those two [Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights] are both under the s...
OSKAR EUSTIS If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING It's really important that those two (Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights) are both under the s...
OSKAR EUSTIS When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B...
DONALD RAY POLLOCK I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion...
YANN MARTEL Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your...
MUHAMMAD ALI I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
DANIEL BERRIGAN A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal
DANIEL BERRIGAN 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 Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM The Hegemony and its relationship with the Ousters aren’t my worry now. I sincerely wish a plague ...
DAN SIMMONS She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am b...
KIRSTEN PROUT The leadership of both Houses of Congress needs a serious wake up call. You can't preach morality an...
GEORGE HARLEIGH Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON We are a plague on the Earth.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
HENRY ROLLINS I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really ...
CHANDLER CANTERBURY We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst �...
KARL LAGERFELD The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, RALPH WALDO EMERSON I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I co...
JOHN KEATS Swami Sivananda
O Man! O ignorant man! O arrogant, impertinent man! You have wasted your life-time. ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
ANDREI PLATONOV the plague of the 21st century.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so e...
RYAN MURPHY I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come ...
ALBERT CAMUS It was the gay plague,
GARY ENGLISH In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here...
JOSH THOMPSON Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE