And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made ...
THE FALL Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
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 If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 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 William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN 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 This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE "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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
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 He broke the law in Canada and so if we are going to let him be charged he should be charged here, w...
DAVID MCCANN Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER Remember William Cooper, he fought hard for what was right and paid the ultimate price. Let us never...
ENRIQUE VEGA Let the chips fall where they may and hopefully we could benefit from that. We have great kids here....
LARRY FINUCANE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We'll come out hard and let the chips fall where they may. There is no quit in our guys.
DAVE PUGLIESE My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.
CALVIN JOHNSON You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I do not pilfer victory.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath plac...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim...
BASIL THE GREAT