Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... then the world 's mine oyster.
JAMES STEPHENS Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 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 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never r...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN 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 heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE 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 Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
ROBIN WILLIAMS He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH 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 In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespea...
AARON LAZAR I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Go then, there are other worlds than these.
STEPHEN KING I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER 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 If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,
DAVID HEIL We go to oyster bars at low tide and find them under rocks and oyster shells.
VINCENT LESTER Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER The non-native oyster was eaten seven times as fast as our native oyster. That was true for all size...
CHARLES PETERSON 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS 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 The wise oyster stays in its shell.
MARTY RUBIN Our attendance rate and tardiness went down by 50 percent this week. One senior even told me he'd co...
JIM OYSTER Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. ...
ANNE URSU After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
ITZHAK PERLMAN An oyster shell opened up after the 2002 Olympics.
LARRY BLOOM Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING 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 A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!'
'The red plague rid you!'
'Toads, beetle...
GARY D. SCHMIDT 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 The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
OSCAR WILDE Shakespeare said “all the world’s a stage” if it is then I suggest you to perform better than ...
VIKRANT PARSAI The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
ANDREW CARNEGIE A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces ar...
TIM CROUCH Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, pl...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
FEDERICO FELLINI My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
MAGGIE SMITH ~ All the worlds a stage, that is until the conditioning is broken. Then we become the audience enjo...
NICOLE STRANTZ Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen.
TREBOR HEALEY Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world is your oyster...
...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.
PAUL NEILAN The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde
OSCAR WILDE If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so el...
RICHARD MCCABE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an...
PARKER POSEY Stella scribbled
in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
EMMA CAMERON It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT