Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;
Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--
Some to ki...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 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 William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI 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 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES 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 "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and ru...
ANNE MCCAFFREY 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 Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE 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 I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness awa...
MARY E. PEARSON 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 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 At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
AMANDA HARLECH Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely ...
RACHEL NICHOLS I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
ISABEL ALLENDE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being ...
AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER You'll get wet," Daisy protested, glancing at his shirtsleeves and waistcoat.
He began to laugh...
LISA KLEYPAS He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Y...
RICHARD ROHR The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hoot...
ELBERT HUBBARD brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.
FELIPE ALOU William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY God of miracles.
God of wonders.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Excellent. Aristotle will introduce you to the employees at the desk,' Dr. Creamintin beamed.
'...
K.M. SHEA This done he took the bride about the neck - and kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack that at...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to...
ALAN MOORE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi...
ELLIE GOULDING Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have pla...
SAROJINI NAIDU Tu-whoo! Ahem! Lord Regent," said the Owl, stooping down a little and holding its beak near the Dwar...
C.S. LEWIS Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
GEORGE HERBERT From wine what sudden friendship springs?
JOHN GAY A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken
and not stirred.
IAN FLEMING Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which
belongs to another."
- Laerti...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice,
"it was the salmon."
CHARLES DICKENS The conscious water saw its God and blushed.
- Richard Crashaw,
RICHARD CRASHAW Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Sing! Who sings
To her who weareth a hundred rings?
Ah, who is this lady fine?
The Vine...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires
The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,
An...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
Who please, the more because they preach in vain,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
service of man: that he may bring fo...
BIBLE Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it moveth it...
BIBLE Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is
deceived thereby is not wise.
BIBLE Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities.
BIBLE Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store
Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.
W.A. BELLAMY Firm and erect the Caledonian stood;
Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;
"Let him drink...
ANONYMOUS John Barleycorn was a hero bold,
Of noble enterprise,
For if you do but taste his blood,
...
ROBERT BURNS I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the
boughs thereof; now also thy breasts...
BIBLE I hang no ivie out to sell my wine;
The nectar of good wits will sell itself.
ROBERT ALLOTT (ALLOT) Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions.
-William Pickering
DAN BROWN Make the doors upon a woman's wit,
and it will out at the casement;
shut that, and 'twill ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl i...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN 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 Every Sunday behind bibles, virgins,
soldiers tight against me, longing,
and my pelvis rub...
JALINA MHYANA Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious v...
EDGAR ALLAN POE What can I tell you
about the alchemy of twins?
Twins are
two bodies that dance KAMAND KOJOURI Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. ...
NEIL GAIMAN I'd like it to stay a quaint little town,
CONNIE MILLER What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked.
“Keep your spirits u...
SULARI GENTILL The Owl and the Pussycat,
EDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussycat.
ZHANG YIMOU