Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old...
GREG BEAR William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En...
LAFCADIO HEARN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR 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 Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures ki...
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 gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless
MAXWELL ANDERSON From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Patience cures many an old complaint.
IRISH PROVERB This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings....
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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
ELIZABETH BEAR I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY 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 When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours ...
TED CRUZ Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teac...
JOSS WHEDON Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than th...
KAREN MAITLAND Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine,
For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;
An...
JAMES I OF ENGLAND Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as ...
PHILIP ZALESKI Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offens...
MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings...
FAROUK I 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I will not show off [written in Old English style font]
NANCY CARTWRIGHT Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the Englis...
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, you won't be able to see the whole picture until all the pieces ...
DANNY L. DEAUBé God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see t...
DANNY L. DEAUBé Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, b...
ALEX COX I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servan...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare wa...
ISHMAEL BEAH When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
PEARL S. BUCK The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men e...
BEN JONSON I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but...
VIKRANT PARSAI No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
OSCAR WILDE I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English languag...
ALEX COX God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, sooner or later, all the pieces will fit together.
DANNY L. DEAUBé I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it...
BRANDON SANDERSON You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience...
SUSAN M. WATKINS There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase...
ROGER EBERT We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be...
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE An old young man, will be a young old man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft both gave commencement speeches here.
MIKE ROGERS The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is sl...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A little calm, a little patience. The will of the people will be respected. The victory will not be ...
GERARD LATORTUE