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 This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in retu...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD 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 O' melancholy,hectic chill for human soul,herewith dismal presence,any spirit does descent.
NITHIN PURPLE 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 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Ad...
SUN MYUNG MOON 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 The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE Pumpkins, bonfire, nature walks, smores, autumn leaves, lattes, apple cider, hoodies, hot cocoa, boo...
LILY CHATTERJEE There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You can't be mistress of the universe until you are mistress of yourself.
SHANA KAY PHARES 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 If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is reveale...
ROGER REES It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subord...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER What Glorious Virtues of Yours can I describe, O my True Guru?
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB 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 I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.
ROBERT BURTON The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially...
AARON SORKIN Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience mo...
ADA LEVERSON I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the True Guru is pleased and satisfied, O Nanak, the True Name is obtained.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B...
DONALD RAY POLLOCK How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to los...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE 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 O Nanak, make the True Guru your friend; going to His Court, you shall obtain the True Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Todo lo que he aprendido hoy en la clase sobre Shakespeare es que a veces tienes que enamorarte de l...
JACKSON PEARCE "Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there i...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Want is the mistress of invention
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN Why should anyone be afraid? O Nanak, those who recognize the True Lord are blended with the True On...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.
RICK WARREN O Nanak, those ears are acceptable, which listen to the True Master.
GURU NANAK The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign stat...
KWAME NKRUMAH A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...
C.P. SNOW O Nanak, they swim across with the True Name of the Lord, the King above the heads of kings.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Lau...
LESLIE NIELSEN The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Memories of My Melancholy Whores,
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather's mistress, so how about it?
CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Through the Perfect Guru, one becomes perfect; O Nanak, meditate on the True One.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela...
NORAH JONES Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; no...
ROBERT WILENSKY You are Exalted, Unfathomable, Infinite and Invaluable. You are my True Lord and Master. I am Your s...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Power is my mistress
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is th...
JOHN DRYDEN You alone are Perfectly Pure, O True Lord; all other places are filled with filth.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB You unite me with Yourself, O True God. Through perfect good karma You are obtained.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB