The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.
William Shakespeare
Related I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th... RHYS IFANS A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enou... RING LARDNER Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first... ELIF SHAFAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an e... TOM WOLFE But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers h... THOMAS FLEMING I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the ques... K. A. APPLEGATE Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of th... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment.... CYRIL CONNOLLY When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, be... SHERMAN ALEXIE Even writers need relief from words. SARAH VOWELL Writers are cut open on the page. A.D. POSEY Psychopaths are odd and rare and unique by themself... if they were writers, I bet in one that they ... DEYTH BANGER “What one experiences at the youthful days (now), does not mean he is being drawn to his failure�... THE PIONEER WRITERS' SOCIETY The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that th... JOHN C. MCGINLEY Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The splash front page is excellent. Viewers know at a glance that a major story is being highlighted... CHARLES THOMPSON The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n... E. L. DOCTOROW Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have... BILL BUFORD I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ... MELVYN BRAGG I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud... JAMES A. MICHENER I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers. MICHAEL MORPURGO There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an... PHILIP M. PARKER The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because ... E. L. DOCTOROW It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, bu... ANDERS HOLM Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of ... THEODORA GOSS Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more ... ANNA MONARDO Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor ... NANCY HOLMES I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school pa... H. G. BISSINGER John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first... JONATHAN DEE The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. ELIAS CANETTI Writers will happen in the best of families. RITA MAE BROWN I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. PATRICIA CLARKSON When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed... BRENT M. JONES Writers don't write, they read and transcribe. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m... NIKKI GIOVANNI I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The probl... BARBARA HODGES I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman w... GLORIA STEINEM For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the... ISMAIL KADARE The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search... PETER THIEL We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't ge... CALVIN TRILLIN The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'. I started to write ... ESKAY TEEL A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main ... MARGARET CHAN I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writer... DANIEL TAMMET I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. EDNA FERBER They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ... LILLIAN HELLMAN Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unre... MARK W. BOYER I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned... NORA EPHRON I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer th... WILLIAM FAULKNER I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write... TAHMOH PENIKETT I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. T... ERIC IDLE I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of ... CHRIS PAVONE This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures ... ABIGAIL GEORGE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Buffy Summers: (to Spike) "I could NEVER be your girl! BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WRITERS Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one n... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom... PENELOPE LIVELY Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul... VICTORIA STRAUSS I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w... SAM SHEPARD If you want to know a country, read its writers. AMINATTA FORNA Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write... ENOCK MAREGESI If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau... BRET EASTON ELLIS I am an authoress; I support all writers. MITTA XININDLU We are reading the first page in a thriller that will end either in resurrection or the death and bu... WILLIAM ROCHELLE Theoretically, our writers will come to us with nothing. And they will leave with the first draft of... ROY BURKHEAD When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the sup... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That&... CHARLAINE HARRIS What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ... F. SIONIL JOSE I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detach... JOHN IRVING Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie... PATRICK KAVANAGH The protocols around the newsroom is that if you're running anything controversial, maybe you'll run... ACTON GORTON They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ... LILLIAN HELLMAN Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. BEVERLY CLEARY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take ... GORE VIDAL The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a... EDMUND BURKE Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. LANGSTON HUGHES Writers are used to being re-created, and need it. DAVID JAMES DUNCAN The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers... ELMORE LEONARD I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poste... JOHN RIDLEY Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The wor... TATYANA TOLSTAYA For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all... GERALDINE BROOKS Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. GORE VIDAL You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking a... KATHRYN LE VEQUE I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still is... ANNE MCCAFFREY I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se... GARY SHTEYNGART I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcoming... TERRY GROSS Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they? ALYSSA HUBBARD If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ... LILLIAN HELLMAN There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can ... DAVID MITCHELL Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out ... GUNTER GRASS Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre... CHELSEA CAIN Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s ar... KILROY J. OLDSTER
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say miracles are past. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Whi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not bound to please thee with my answer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we hap... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my mind's eye, Horatio. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jesters do oft prove prophets WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like
an old tale that the verity of it ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and brea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Make not your thoughts you prisons. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm, But for... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome: Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge: To business... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE