Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the gro...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE on behalf of Charles, William, Harry and all my family and of all the Spencer family with us today.
EARL SPENCER 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 mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces ar...
TIM CROUCH I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered...
J.K. ROWLING "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING I definitely saw (Harper) turn up the sideline. When I saw him, that's when I let it go a couple of ...
IKE WHITAKER 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 I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must cofess...that I rather th...
J.K. ROWLING 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 He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
MURRAY WALKER 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not ...
SEAN AVERY Who was this women?' asked Harry.
'I dunno, some Ministry hag.'
Mundungus considered for a...
J.K. ROWLING I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'
DON CHERRY 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 am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B...
DONALD RAY POLLOCK Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really ...
CHANDLER CANTERBURY cursed hat. It made his ears shrivel up.” Harry laughed but didn’t
J.K. ROWLING I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director'...
WARWICK DAVIS 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 Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark sid...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY I saw a bullet hole and I lifted up his shirt. He was trying to breathe and then I saw the blood.
JOANNE SANABRIA In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand...
LEONARD COHEN I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "...
J.K. ROWLING He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I never saw him play. I'm too young.
BLAKE MITCHELL Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
TIM CROUCH Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.
J.K. ROWLING With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up.
Sirius was loungin...
J.K. ROWLING There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r...
MARIO TESTINO 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 [NHL contraction would be fine if] mediocre European players ... typical of most French guys in our ...
JEREMY ROENICK Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...
ALLAN BLOOM That's when he lifted up his sweatshirt and we saw his gun.
ALICIA MCCASLIN Prince Harry and Prince William didn’t buy a castle to live in! They live at Kensington Palace. Wh...
NATALIE PACE I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She e...
PATRICK WILSON Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wi...
EUGENE ORMANDY She was looking, not at the spider, but at Neville, and Harry, following her gaze, saw that Neville�...
J.K. ROWLING With young pitchers, you're going to get what you saw tonight at times.
LOU PINIELLA I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON I wasn't angry; I just saw his reaction. He tried to get up off the ground, and he said, 'Hey man!' ...
JULIAN TAVAREZ One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH 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 He just loves everything about high school. At football games you'll see him up in the stands wearin...
KYLE SCHELLIN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY The smoky shadow of a young woman with long hair fell to the ground as Bertha had done, straightened...
J.K. ROWLING 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 He liked to complain about things: people at work, Harry, the council, Harry, the bank, and Harry we...
J.K. ROWLING Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby do...
J.K. ROWLING Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and in...
ERIK LARSON I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying."
Uncle Ver...
J.K. ROWLING Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakes...
ANTONY SHER Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was ...
JON FAVREAU So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
YOGI BERRA Give it up for Harry Pottery
NIALL HORAN Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten hi...
J.K. ROWLING William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan,...
KENNETH TYNAN That's what yer little sister said,' said Hagrid, nodding at Ron. Met her jus' yesterday.' Hagrid lo...
J.K. ROWLING We didn't know if he made it until we saw an official running out of the fog with his arms up.
JACK DONALDSON