Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO 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 Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE 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 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 Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Life without freedom is no life at all.
FRIEND OF MINE 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 Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakes...
ANTONY SHER When I lie where shades of darkness / Shall no more assail mine eyes.
WALTER DE LA MARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
MR. T The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...
WILLIAM STYRON "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN 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 thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never r...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Out of all the T-shirts that are worn to school every day, a student cannot express pride in his Sou...
KIRK LYONS 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 William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG In our Country . . . one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never...
SPIKE MILLIGAN 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 William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's his word against mine
It's mine word against his.
DEYTH BANGER If I must die,I will encounter darkness as a bride,And hug it in mine arms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he g...
BIBLE By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness
PABLO NERUDA Darkness of Lucifer is a path of lies and a glorification in riches to mankind, due to mankind's ind...
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMAN You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
KATY MIXON 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 Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ...
RICHARD DAWKINS I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary ...
WILD THING Mary? She's mine.
Yeah, but we had that thing...
SHE'S MINE!
LOUIS TOMLINSON Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke...
BARTON GELLMAN He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the da...
PABLO NERUDA If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
GEORGE ORWELL Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...
C.P. SNOW I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one ...
TIMOTHY DALTON I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ...
ALEXI ZENTNER What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN [Hope Davis, who appears in his new film,] Proof ... Hello? 'Shakespeare in Love'?
HOPE DAVIS And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spi...
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA The only sign of life Ryan has shown in three days is when his brother William kissed him and a tear...
JO BROWN If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mi...
P.G. WODEHOUSE I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could ...
THOMAS BOWDLER Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...
ALLAN BLOOM My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the A...
ANTONYA NELSON One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
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