In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I cut to the middle as quickly as I could and got off a shot.
JOSH SOARES 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 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 Laura could win a point with a passing shot or she could volley her way to a point. She is a skilled...
DICK PIRETTI 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 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 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 He's like a throwback the way he can serve and volley. He puts shots away, and him and William (a so...
DAN CORBIN Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, t...
A GENTLEMEN precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile wit...
A GENTLEMEN Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use yo...
A GENTLEMEN No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
A GENTLEMEN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN 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 Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
LAO TZU Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied...
DAVID CRYSTAL I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE David is doing fine, it'll just be a matter of how quickly he can get back.
JACK DEL RIO I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as ...
JILL CARROLL In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respecta...
ÉMILE ZOLA It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
DAVID DENMAN If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE We have a fun record of ripping off Shakespeare. He was brilliant with narrative and complex, twisty...
KIRSTEN SMITH I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the n...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS She's improved. She's got more ammunition, a better head and a better volley.
CAROLINE MATHES 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 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 You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
JOHN LANGDON Fine words dresse ill deedes.
GEORGE HERBERT I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new word...
ADAM MANSBACH 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 I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband'...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.
ANTHONY DOERR The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
STUART NADLER The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I just try to get a shot on net as quickly as possible, and tonight I got lucky.
MATHIEU SCHNEIDER Thing is, we could discuss it out loud in front of the gentlemen over there, or you could get off my...
IAN MCEWAN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE But such fine words butter no parsnips.
ROBERT AITKEN There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were no...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles
the Second. But the seamen were ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were no...
THOMAS BABINGTON 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 First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used bef...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT He (Roche) worked on my overall game with a special emphasis on the serve and volley.
SANIA MIRZA Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole them
JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
CONFUCIUS Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB It's a long shot to think we can win the next nine. It's not like we had the button turned off all y...
KEYON DOOLING Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That had to have an impact on them. We hope Lance is doing fine and gets back quickly.
WILL FLOWERS I kind of knew there was a guy coming, so I had to shoot kind of quickly. A quick snap, a high shot,...
BRANDON BOCHENSKI I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE Very few for both of us. It's a protected species, can't be shot by the farmer ... that would be a b...
GREG MATTHEWS I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
JOHN MCENROE Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been l...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON