"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 He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE 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 In Britain, we have diverse cultural elements that converge in Shakespeare and in India, we find ele...
TIM SUPPLE 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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 Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
BILL TOOMEY Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE 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 Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT 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 Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
ROBIN WILLIAMS He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH 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 To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscienti...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER 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 I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of sch...
KRISTEN CONNOLLY If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how ...
EVAN PARKER 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 I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the ...
ROBERT COLLIER First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nu...
ROBERT COLLIER I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a th...
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL Shakespeare said “all the world’s a stage” if it is then I suggest you to perform better than ...
VIKRANT PARSAI After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. To be free from control is like to have a heavy cross to carry one moment then tossing it aside the ...
GARY F EVANS... What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important ...
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