Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON 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 I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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 By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!'
'I daresay you would, but a...
J. STORER CLOUSTON Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE 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 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 Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Imagine how this looks to William Mayo. This guy admits to lying, he admits to giving false testimon...
WAYNE TARTLINE 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 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 How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.
JOSEPHINE HULL When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Get thee behind me, Satan.
BIBLE Get thee behind me, Satan!
P.C. CAST 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 Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, / That from the nunnery / Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, / T...
RICHARD LOVELACE What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to rea...
BRIAN ARMSTRONG Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
JOSEPHINE HULL And yet, even when all was well, as Shakespeare said, that ends well, did they say ‘Hey, Kendra, w...
ALEX FLINN BEWITCHING Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just...
TOMMY HILFIGER The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and...
BEN OKRI I rose up at the dawn of day,--
"Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away...
WILLIAM BLAKE Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the flo...
BIBLE Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for ...
SALLY JESSY RAPHAEL I suspect this is the closest we're ever going to get to looking at the face of Shakespeare.
TARNYA COOPER A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD 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 If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
GEORGE ORWELL Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Nearer, my God, to Thee--
Nearer to Thee--
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marri...
SNOOP DOGG William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER It's like trying to teach Shakespeare to a monkey.
HUGH PIERCE It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a...
EUGENIE CLARK Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD