Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON I think the developers have found a flaw in the law and crawled through the crack. The flaw is the u...
REP. NANCY DETERT Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
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 Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.
ARTHUR GODFREY 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 The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
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 Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chao...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
[Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on...
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My motto - sans limites.
ISADORA DUNCAN How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul c...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory...
TOM HOLLAND I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always...
KOREN ZAILCKAS Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER England with all thy faults, I love thee still--
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Wh...
WILLIAM COWPER How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,Chaos is come again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the recor...
WINONA RYDER The very word perfection is full of flaw,because it can't exist. Or is that what perfection is? Flaw...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
PROVERB Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
SPANISH PROVERB 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 I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone! ...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I d...
JIMMY KIMMEL I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. Hari -William M. Thackeray.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE [On the televised] New York Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner, ... I'm glad Courtney Love is here. I ...
COURTNEY LOVE 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 He whispered, “More than life, more than honor, I love thee.” What do you say when a man whose e...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell abou...
JOSEPH ADDISON The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
HAVELOCK ELLIS 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 And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
FINN WITTROCK My name is not 'William Shatner.'
CHRIS PINE Nearer, my God, to Thee--
Nearer to Thee--
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong ...
JACKSON PEARCE I found a delivery in my flaw.
DAN QUISENBERRY 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
THOMAS HOOD Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
ROBERT HERRICK To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR I really love the sound of my dog snoring.
CHRIS EVANS I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be...
KAREN ALLEN My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER I love violent Shakespeare. It is to me what steak is to some people: the bloodier the better.
MARA WILSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My sou...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
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