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 Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
AMANDA M. THRASHER 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 "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 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 Where do you prefer to sit, Sir?" (Lady Alexandra to William, the Duke, during her mail-order bride ...
LISA M. PRYSOCK 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 But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir La...
PATRICK STEWART 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 The title of the episode is 'Unlikely Allies,' which probably refers to the relationship between mys...
ROGER MOORE Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone,...
MICHAEL FARADAY There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by th...
JAMES WYATT 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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 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 know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that ...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE 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 I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO 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 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 Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT 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 With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I ca...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
JACK LONDON My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I shoul...
HENRY LAURENS Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: "Live neither in the past nor in the ...
WILLIAM OSLER Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, RALPH WALDO EMERSON Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the...
UDAY KIRAN Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Shakespeare,
JOSEPH FIENNES When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' N...
RANDY MAY When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTH Ingersoll i...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH No -- no, sir, I don't.
DAN RATHER I was unaware of that, sir.
PETER GEARY You sir, are a fishmonger!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE to contact Command Authority, sir?
DAVID BALDACCI Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare: The Biography,
PETER ACKROYD A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE