Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Home is home, though it be never so homely.
JOHN CLARKE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
HERVEY ALLEN Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits
HARVEY ALLEN 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 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 "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 William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY 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 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 William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
TIM CROUCH Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 William: It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.
HUGH GRANT It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life no...
PARUL WADHWA Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some...
H. L. MENCKEN If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some...
H.L. MENCKEN 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
MINNA ANTRIM I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE That is how we can do our part in keeping our youth safe and sober.
JANE ALLEVA Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?
THOMAS MIDDLETON 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 Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one ano...
JOHN GAY I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Wi...
JONATHAN ANDERSON I have taken to living by my wits.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like...
LISA SEE The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old...
HERVEY ALLEN The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND 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 You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everybody's on the same page. That's rare. So the parents and youth could talk together at home.
JIM DIXON 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 He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
ZOE WANAMAKER Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Anybody on this team can hit a home run. It's just all about keeping clean mechanics and keeping you...
LONNIE HICKS 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 As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM I would say it is more homely than chi-chi but all the more charming for that,
DAVID CAMERON Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and...
BEN OKRI Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.
RICK RIORDAN He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally i...
SAMIRA WILEY There's a lot of trouble with our youth. I've watched a couple of generations fail... . It starts at...
EDWARD MOORE There was the barest minimum of religion at home. In my entire youth, until I left home at age 15, I...
LEONARD ROSE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown pe...
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Good wits will jump.
GEORGE VILLIERS I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my h...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Nothing has been alleged ever to have haunted the Harrison Home.
DONNA WING I suspect this is the closest we're ever going to get to looking at the face of Shakespeare.
TARNYA COOPER I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the thing...
DAGMARA DOMINCZYK No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
DAVID HUME Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and...
BEN OKRI Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE