Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every why has a wherefore.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER For every why he had a wherefore
SAMUEL BUTLER Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO 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 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 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore
God hath joined together, let not ...
BIBLE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What will we care for the why and the wherefore?
GRAHAM GREENE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
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 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 Every path hath a puddle.
GEORGE HERBERT Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone,...
MICHAEL FARADAY In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Ah! What is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is he withering?
DAN LENO We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefo...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
AMANDA M. THRASHER But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hea...
UNKNOWN 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 Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion ...
ROBERT BURTON There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
GEORGE HERBERT Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of
that writer Ovid and that writer Meta...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR 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 Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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 Why and Wherefore set out one day,
To hunt for a wild Negation.
They agreed to meet at a cool ...
OLIVER HERFORD 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 The sea hath fish for every man.
WILLIAM CAMDEN Every ill man hath his ill day.
GEORGE HERBERT It was more exacting than Shakespeare. Every stammer was scripted.
JAMES FOLEY As ourselves your empires fall,
And every kingdom hath a grave.
WILLIAM HABINGTON 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 21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at leas...
JAMES C. DOBSON In the bonds of Death He lay
Who for our offence was slain;
But the Lord is risen to-day,
...
MARTIN LUTHER In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hat...
MARTIN LUTHER We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate where...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Bec...
NEIL MACGREGOR Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha...
BIBLE And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he ...
BIBLE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha...
BIBLE For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that hath n...
BIBLE Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha...
BIBLE I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-b...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to
Shakespeare, that in his writing (w...
BEN JONSON A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Muc...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER 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 She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which...
BIBLE Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very hap...
PLUTARCH What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never r...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER