"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN 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 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 Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
SAM WATERSTON 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardina...
EUGENE MCCARTHY No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardina...
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
MURRAY I. MESZAROS William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST 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 A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!'
'The red plague rid you!'
'Toads, beetle...
GARY D. SCHMIDT but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN The two people who know the most about this are Monica Lewinsky and President William Jefferson Clin...
BILL MCCOLLUM Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people thin...
PILOU ASBAEK Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a ...
TOM STOPPARD In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER 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 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 like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for ...
GEORGE VECSEY It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross—it was your sins and my s...
BILLY GRAHAM Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins
IRIS MURDOCH This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling...
LUKAS FOSS After God, Shakespeare has created most
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE 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 I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.
FAITH ERIN HICKS William's eyes glowed like two amber coals. She met his gaze and flinched. No emotion reflected in t...
ILONA ANDREWS Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black...
ILONA ANDREWS It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I ...
ILONA ANDREWS Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed
FRANCIS ASBURY Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adapti...
KONRAD LORENZ Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
PATTI SMITH Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that a...
MELANIE BENJAMIN In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian ...
HAROLD BLOOM She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tolerance is the creed of one who is accepting of a person or group whose sins are different from on...
TROY J. GAINEY When a mute man sins, it's not with his tongue.
When a blind man sins, it's not with his eyes.
When ...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.
MICHAEL POLLAN He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH Never trust a duck.
WILL HERONDALE Kaldar picked up a rock and tossed it into the clearing. It landed between two wards. A green stem s...
ILONA ANDREWS She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
ILONA ANDREWS You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?"
"Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think someth...
ILONA ANDREWS It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no ...
ILONA ANDREWS Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS 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 There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
MARK TWAIN There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence
MARK TWAIN I'll tell you what God did do. He sent Jesus to die on the cross so you could be saved. To forgive y...
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true...
DAMON KNIGHT *Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!
RUSSELL T. DAVIES Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
WILLIAM GADDIS I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian graces; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
BILLY GRAHAM One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.
JAMES MACDONALD The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
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