Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
W...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity, COLLEY CIBBER A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN 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 Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white
WILLIAM BLAKE Black as the night.
Black as the depths.
Black as your heart.
Where your hatred's at ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS 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 That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh precious Lord!
Oh precious Lord!
Thou know them all
The thought of my mind
An...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA 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 They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only t...
MIKE EPPS Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep,
I'll come and pace the deck with ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Tho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my va...
KAHLIL GIBRAN For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When striving through
a pitch-black night,
if you find yourself
marooned and blue, AKASH MANDAL But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: / That the aged men be sober, grave, temperat...
BIBLE Linger now with me, thou Beauty,
On the sharp archaic shore.
Surely 'tis a wastrel's dut...
MERVYN PEAKE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Annunciation
Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE Over half of our numbers come from one night of violence. We had about six hours of civil unrest.
BILL PROFFITT Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night JOHN KEATS What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper?
-Leia ...
IAN DOESCHER In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY The night it falls
The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For pl...
VIRGINIA ALISON Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable
liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-sm...
COLLEY CIBBER 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 Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Stand sti...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE A world full of "certainties"
All the plans, all the vanities.
Where black covers the whit...
SANHITA BARUAH Love me sweet
With all thou art
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the Lightest...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Rain turned to ice,
and lightning splintered, it spliced
the black sky, it seeped a bright...
A. LEE BROCK Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
WILLIAM MCFEE Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shal...
JOHN KEATS Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good things come to ...
JESS C. SCOTT Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,<...
VICTOR HUGO Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
JACK KEROUAC Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.
Kids come in all different...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Black for hunting through the night
For death and sorrow, the color’s white
Gold for a b...
CASSANDRA CLARE I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Hele...
BLYTHE DANNER At the Moor
Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillne...
GEORG TRAKL Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wick...
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wick...
COLLEY CIBBER I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would ...
KYLE MACLACHLAN Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
BIBLE In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shar...
DENISE LEVERTOV There's many a boy here today that looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
G...
JOHN PODLASKI Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;
Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Whe...
WILLIAM BALDWIN Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come w...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, ...
A.E. HOUSMAN Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions.
-William Pickering
DAN BROWN In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.
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 Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
PIET HEIN I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou ...
BIBLE Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, hear...
COLLEY CIBBER You and I
The starry sky
Dancing in the night
Talking all things life.
NIKKI ROWE