This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the ...
BRAND BLANSHARD This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE 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 To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
IAN DOESCHER What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
BRENDAN FRASER Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Lord Polonius: Wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD 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 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question i...
GAYLE FORMAN 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 never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in...
JOHN GREEN Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play...
AARON YOO 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 am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I pl...
ERIN MORGENSTERN One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re ...
JOHN GREEN Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI 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 Lord, keep my memory green.
CHARLES DICKENS What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON 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 Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ...
JOHN GREEN There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just ano...
JOHN GREEN I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN You can't just skip the boring parts."
"Of course I can skip the boring parts."
"How do yo...
GARY D. SCHMIDT William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN 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 The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged profession...
TREVOR NUNN I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unles...
IAN MCKELLEN The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespear...
JOHN LOGAN All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal c...
NATHALIE SARRAUTE 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 Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Sha...
JOHN RITTER But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN Dear spiritual brothers and sisters, this beautiful morning I think everyone very fresh—outside ve...
DALAI LAMA All enemies at their moment of death; become loving brothers.
ENRIQUE VEGA I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT To each our own Hamlet.
JASPER FFORDE 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 It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help b...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his &...
MALORIE BLACKMAN The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
DEAN CAVANAGH I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice Willi...
KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice Willi...
KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanen...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanen...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
LIZA MINNELLI In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and tr...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, u...
IAN MCKELLEN I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful m...
NATSUKI TAKAYA Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruct...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget.
MICHAEL LIPSEY Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
ANN BRASHARES Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Ingersoll i...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not because we think that it's still about to happen,
thus makes our future life as though yet...
TOBA BETA Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
JOHN DONNE Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in sev...
JOHN RITTER It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the l...
ARUNDHATI ROY On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare
SCOTT TUROW Though this be madness, yet there is method
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so truly crossed, but it is in the nature...
JOHN GREEN Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE