William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY 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 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 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 Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
JOHN RUSKIN Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
JOHN RUSKIN Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES 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 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 A king's son is no nobler than his company.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A king's son is no nobler than his company.
GAELIC PROVERB A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
LOUIS DEBONNAIRE Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth
RUTH MCKENNEY Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
LUDWIG VON MISES There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
NICK LAMPSON Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship
SAMUEL JOHNSON 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 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 “Being honest and truthful is far nobler than wearing a crown.”
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Forgiveness is better than revenge.
PITTACUS OF MITYLENE I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE 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 Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
UNKNOWN Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER THERESA Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER TERESA At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind...
RANDOLPH RAY 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 No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
AESOP Your kindness and care are the best gifts ever!
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it's a fact that friends l...
LISA KLEYPAS To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
MEYER LONDON When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH 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 Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTT Kindness effects more than severity.
AESOP It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") My goal was bigger than revenge. My purpose greater than personal retribution.
SARAH J. MAAS Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
ZOE WANAMAKER Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
AFRICAN PROVERB No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
UNKNOWN Kindness has more power than compulsion.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Sometimes, honestly is better than kindness.
RYAN KIER Halfway kindness is worse than none.
ROSAMUND HODGE William: It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.
HUGH GRANT It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It was more exacting than Shakespeare. Every stammer was scripted.
JAMES FOLEY 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 Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
BISHOP T. WILSON Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is t...
EPICTETUS This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Lever...
MICHAEL SWANWICK Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
AL PACINO It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!
MARK TWAIN 'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
DAVID BORENSTEIN