A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But fate it a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and...
ELIZABETH GASKELL 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE 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 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 Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 The thing about a long snapper is that no one knows who I am unless I goof up.
GAVIN TARQUINIO Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life
ALEXANDER SMITH Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
ALEXANDER SMITH In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
ANDRE GIDE A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE Little strokes fell great oaks.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS A small leak will sink a great ship.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stone...
CHINESE PROVERB For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ethan's been around so long, it's a great credit to him. He might be as good a long-snapper as we've...
JOE GIBBS Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
ARISTOTLE 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 Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
ARISTOTLE Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles
ARISTOTLE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
DORIS LESSING I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO We've been asked to look at limits on gray snapper, but we're not so inclined to do that. (Gray snap...
LARRY MCKINNEY 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 Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Trifles make the sum of life.
CHARLES DICKENS 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 I took Utah based on the coaching staff and how I fit in. That was the best placement for me as a lo...
BUTCH ROWLEY Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our field goal team did a great job. As they say, they stepped it up. Our kicker, placer, snapper al...
GREGG BAHEN I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE 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 The number of red snapper caught illegally is like a constant in the equation when we do stock asses...
RICK LEARD Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Men are lead by trifles.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Yes, our long snapper is a rookie and I've been playing for 15 years and you never know when it is g...
CHRIS GARDOCKI She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON It's really important that those two [Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights] are both under the s...
OSKAR EUSTIS It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN I won't use Twitter. Twitter posts are thought-farts. I don't care about unconsidered though...
ELLEN ULLMAN A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...
C.P. SNOW Small minds are captivated by trifles.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces ar...
TIM CROUCH In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such ...
WILKIE COLLINS From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a neglig...
THOMAS SPRAT A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a neglig...
THOMAS SPRAT Women are used to worrying over trifles.
SUSAN GLASPELL I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
[Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER 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