Lord, what fools these mortals be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Lord, what fools these mortals be! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools the...
BENJAMIN R. SMITH
"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
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 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
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
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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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 Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER
I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN
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
The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions
ANONYMOUS
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING I have entered Your Sanctuary, Lord; please save me, as You have saved the idiots and fools.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King S...
BIBLE
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
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER
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 find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is en...
JOHN BRADSHAW William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY
"With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING
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 Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
BODHIDHARMA Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."
EDDIE JOHNSON I murdered the beast inside but these fools dabbling in Necromancy.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.
EMMA RAVELING I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO
'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
RICK RIORDAN
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, n...
CHARLTON HESTON
Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human b...
EDWARD BOND Don’t you think it’s best that you stay away from mortals? You know they break so easily these d...
KIMBERLY SPENCER Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS
To what base ends, and by what abject ways,
Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
ALEXANDER POPE What is wealth? A dream of fools.
ABRAHAM CAHAN Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRE
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research semina...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
When you do Shakespeare they think you must be intelligent because they think you understand what yo...
HELEN MIRREN
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
AESCHYLUS
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS
What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
AESCHYLUS
It doesn't behoove us not to ask these questions. It makes us look like fools.
STEVE MARTIN
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
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE -who does not move with time, like suspended freak with no past or future; let us fade like mortals,...
YAMIN RASHEED
fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and hea...
LUCRETIUS Lord knows marriage between two people is difficult as it is, but these folks have a mountain to cli...
DAN SAMMONS
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attem...
MIKE TYSON
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their...
LAUREN OLIVER
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. I...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands
That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--
To...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time.”
The other statu...
S.W. LOTHIAN
William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
Only fools want to be great.
T.H. WHITE
Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone
ELIZABETH FRY
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question i...
GAYLE FORMAN
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
All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.
C.S. LEWIS