In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I...
CHARLES DICKENS 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 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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 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 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 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 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
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 Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling wor...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.
SARAH J. MAAS A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG 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 [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.
TAHEREH MAFI I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirlin...
MARILYN FERGUSON Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
G. K. CHESTERTON I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my ...
ZOE WANAMAKER I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In 1906 the Czechs were already applauding the famous circus of the Wild West hero William Frederick...
BUFFALO BILL 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 went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
KATHY ACKER Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to rea...
BRIAN ARMSTRONG In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We ca...
KATHRYN LASKY Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the o...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.
ALAN SHEPHERD We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing
LETITIA LANDON The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
DAVID DENMAN Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bat...
VIVIEN LEIGH 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 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 So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in it...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied...
DAVID CRYSTAL England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like...
VIVIEN LEIGH I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new word...
ADAM MANSBACH Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER 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 Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI These words are razors to my wounded heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART There are 2 words that can bring JOY, HAPPINESS, ABUNDANCE, and create MIRACLES in your life. These ...
LORRIN L. LEE This is a good starter show for some of these kids who've never been onstage before, and we have sev...
JANE MODLIN Rearrange these words into a sentence: 'Tony and Gary are morons witless?.
CAROLINE QUENTIN What are these,
So withered and so wild in their attire
That took not like th' inhabitants o' ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but els...
SABINE BARING-GOULD You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is en...
JOHN BRADSHAW Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.
NIKKI ROWE She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins.
SARAH J. MAAS Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, / The hart, and the roebuc...
BIBLE 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 What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be un...
JODI PICOULT Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in ...
FRANK MCCOURT Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are tra...
FRANCES MAYES Shame, Depair, Soltude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her str...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's...
JESSICA LANGE Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness — these c...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN