"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD 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 I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN 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 O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable
deal of sack!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN 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 To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is most tolerable, and not to be endured.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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 Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorge...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B...
DONALD RAY POLLOCK O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! -King Henry IV. Pa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS 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 Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be.
C.S. WOOLLEY Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. IYENGAR I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER 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 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 Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life isn't just to be endured, it's to be enjoyed.
GORDON B.HINCKLEY I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e...
DEAN ACHESON The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e...
DEAN GOODERHAM ACHESON In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Mer...
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 What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON What can't be cured must be endured
PROVERB What can't be cured must be endured.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
ANATOLE FRANCE Great loves too must be endured.
COCO CHANEL Great loves too must be endured
COCO CHANEL 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 O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once!
To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!
Vil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Food should be enjoyed rather than endured.
STEVE HAMILTON 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 O monstrous world! Take note, take note, o world,To be direct and honest is not safe!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL If not for God we could not have endured this process.
BOB SCHINDLER Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY The board has made her working conditions intolerable ... She's being forced out -- let's face it. T...
DAN KELLY Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD 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 To be, or not to be: what a question!
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM