I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON (One character on another:)
"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS 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 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
WALT WHITMAN 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 William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY 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 I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE God is nature’s anti-dote to misery.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
EDWARD YOUNG Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
EDWARD YOUNG "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
EDWARD YOUNG 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 He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTH I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 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 Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS 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 I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE 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 just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very ...
DONNA TARTT I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi...
ELLIE GOULDING Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
OSCAR WILDE ON HIS DEATHBED I am very proud of William Kushner. He should prove to be a great asset to Berwyn.
MARK WEINER When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could ...
THOMAS BOWDLER The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakespeare, and his Bible, but pores greed...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY 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 Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ...
RUTH RENDELL Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH His absence is so big it's like he's there.
PATRICK NESS I'm very happy and very excited to be back after two years' absence.
FILIPPO INZAGHI In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think...
JULIE CHRISTIE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is v...
BEN OKRI Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
KATE MIDDLETON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON When my delegate Jeff Frederick, talks about holding the line on taxes, what he's really talking abo...
STEVE DIXON [Hope Davis, who appears in his new film,] Proof ... Hello? 'Shakespeare in Love'?
HOPE DAVIS Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Management has failed to give a consistent reason for his absence.
BRENT THILL As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand...
LEONARD COHEN Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time t...
ALEX COX William Paterson is a very athletic team. We put pressure on them. We made one mistake at the end wh...
JOE FUSSNER Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt...!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
EUGENE IONESCO I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Bec...
NEIL MACGREGOR Shakespeare puts a lot of demand on the actors. He doesn't tell you very much about how to behave. H...
BOB VALENTINE I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD