For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO 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 I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN "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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which...
JOSEPH ADDISON Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which...
JOSEPH ADDISON Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which ...
JOSEPH ADDISON I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE 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 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER 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 Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...
R.J. PALACIO "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING 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 occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 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 I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH 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 One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL Sometimes I feel if I could fly away like a bird in the sky.Sometimes I feel if I could disappear li...
NISHI DE SILVA William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Courage is virtue of people with inner strength. People with inner strength have confidence & self b...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of cour...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS 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 Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
OVID We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.
ADA PALMER The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakesp...
DANIEL HANNAN Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.
EDMUND SPENSER Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
EDMUND SPENSER I stand for authentic courage, living with integrity and a heart for justice.
JAIME CONTRERAS In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely ...
CARLTON CUSE Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
PLAUTUS Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
AMBROSE BIERCE You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
KATY MIXON Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.
JONATHAN BROWN Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still h...
HOWARD COSELL There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We had been working with Prince William County officials to find a family.
KRISTY GLASSEN Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...
ALLAN BLOOM I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ...
ALEXI ZENTNER A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY For success, map out a course of action & follow it with conviction. It requires courage & patience....
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
JOHN BYROM This is really a historic and important occasion for us.
ZACH HALL I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,
MARY ROBINSON Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
VANESSA REDGRAVE