Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The only sign of life Ryan has shown in three days is when his brother William kissed him and a tear...
JO BROWN William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN 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 "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 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 No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUS We kept waiting for him to show the wear and tear,
MIKE SCIOSCIA "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Cautionary Verses for Children
HILAIRE BELLOC Rose:i love you
Doctor:Quite right, and i guess if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler....
RUSSELL T. DAVIES I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
CHARLES LAMB I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad pe...
FELICITY HUFFMAN Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
DYAN CANNON Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.
KATE O'MARA 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 William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE We've had his hamstring checked out by a specialist and there's no tear but there is tightness in hi...
GREG COOPER I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI 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 don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE The morning sun, the smoke rising from a ,burning corpse, and a broken seat must be avoided. Let him...
GURU NANAK 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 One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If Jesus comes back tomorrow, would your actions cause him to hug you or would he have a tear in his...
PETER STROPLE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguis...
AMBROSE BIERCE Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
ORSON WELLES 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 If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking fo...
RACHEL HELD EVANS Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM It would positively be a relief to me to dig him [Shakespeare] up and throw stones at him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The Satanic Verses.
SALMAN RUSHDIE His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. Wit...
FELIPE ALOU I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON [Hope Davis, who appears in his new film,] Proof ... Hello? 'Shakespeare in Love'?
HOPE DAVIS I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS 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 I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses migh...
DARON MALAKIAN [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL A lot of guys said he was off the wall, he's crazy. I found him to be a guy with a lot of energy. He...
FRANK ROBINSON Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
CRISS JAMI Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead.
She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
EUGENE IONESCO When we try to find the good in ourselves and others, we pull those good traits up out of hiding and...
EMILYANN GIRDNER Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...
SHERI S. TEPPER For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey -- for vengeance. If o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN 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 Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is v...
BEN OKRI It's just -- I just feel really bad for him.
JANET GAMET Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
DEAN KOONTZ Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and in...
ERIK LARSON Running on the rocks barefoot with his feet burned so bad was what hurt him the most.
ANN EAST