Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO "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 Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE 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 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO 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: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO 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 William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER I can't afford to live no where else. But we got an advantage. We don't have to pay our rent to look...
DONNA ROGERS Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
VICTOR HUGO If you see me or Heath (Ledger) in a movie that you don’t like it’s because we made a bad decisi...
MATT DAMON 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON 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 I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS We're envious of them,
TOM HICKS The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS 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 An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
VANESSA REDGRAVE To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON The modern developments of economic science in relation to rent indicate progress. For we are learni...
ALFRED MARSHALL Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what ...
LARRY RIVERS The Internet has made it so much simpler for people who want a house-sitter or people who are lookin...
GARY DUNN We need to be careful what we rent, and when we rent. If you can use a mid-size car, use a mid-size,...
CHARLIE GREEN I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG the rent is a little higher here
but so far I've been able to
pay it
and that's a mi...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human b...
EDWARD BOND The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
DAVID DENMAN The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
OSCAR WILDE An envious heart can't be original.
TOBA BETA William Paterson is a very athletic team. We put pressure on them. We made one mistake at the end wh...
JOE FUSSNER What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
BRENDAN FRASER Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION I'd like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare.
CHARLES MOSKOS In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART It?s a different situation here. I have to see what was already here and see what changes needed to ...
DANIE CARO 'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to writ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.
UNKNOWN I guess we'll see what we're made of.
MARK PENDLETON You can ride around town now and see for-rent signs posted, ... I havent seen those for a long tim...
GEORGE ROBINSON It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces...
AMANDA CRAIG Give me but one hour of Scotland,
Let me see it ere I die.
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun,
WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON 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