The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
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 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 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 My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 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 In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
THOMAS GRAY William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN 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 In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
FRANZ KAFKA In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
ALAN YANG O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Sha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT 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 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 Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER 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 I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any o...
LORD BYRON Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS on behalf of Charles, William, Harry and all my family and of all the Spencer family with us today.
EARL SPENCER What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN 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 Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
CLAIRE TOMALIN Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
ROBIN WILLIAMS It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
JULIEN TORMA Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
ANN BRASHARES A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
OLIVIA THIRLBY In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH 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 "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the ...
BRAND BLANSHARD You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
SARA HUMPHREYS I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to a grim and ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Would it help,” he asked gently, “to have a shoulder to cry on?”
She fought to conceal h...
LISA KLEYPAS There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, n...
CHARLTON HESTON 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 O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS We are all facing dark and difficult times.
J.K. ROWLING It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare eme...
M. H. ABRAMS This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!"
Said ...
MARIE LU