Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 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 My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies! LEWIS CARROLL 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 William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and co...
BRYAN FULLER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE 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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER 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 When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON 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 I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle...
LORNA SAGE Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???...
DEYTH BANGER 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 William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER 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 went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness.
MARTY RUBIN Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...
WILLIAM STYRON Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to...
PAULA HAWKINS Remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
RICHARD LIES From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to ent...
KELLY ASBURY I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.
TRACIE BENNETT 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 Madness breeds madness.
DAN BROWN Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way".
(Note: What's that?...
DEYTH BANGER [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
UNKNOWN The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATES I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for ...
CHARLES DANCE This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
PHILIP MASSINGER True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Are you a maid, Penny?" She blushed. "Yes. Of course. Who would have –"
"Stay that way. Love ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. LAWRENCE I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Shakespeare,
JOSEPH FIENNES The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
ROBERT BROWNING I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like ...
LOUIS NOWRA I think the festival does a good job of making Shakespeare accessible and helping to dispel this myt...
ROD WOEHLER Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a lit...
SHANNON L. ALDER The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown
FRANCIS QUARLES Ingersoll i...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
GRANT MORRISON I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH Love that is not madness is not love.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Love that is not madness is not love.
PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA