The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Excuses are seldom truthful, often handy, and rarely productive. Don’t make excuses: make things h...
RHOBERTA SHALER PHD To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
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 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 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 Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
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 Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
HORACE WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills ...
HORACE WALPOLE True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
EDMUND SPENSER Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True loves are often sown,
but seldom grow on ground.
EDMUND SPENSER William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Coh...
TUCKER CARLSON William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Happiness seldom shouts, but often whispers.
JIM GENOVESE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN It was great being a part of it, we were really choked up at halftime when Ruthie spoke. She's meant...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY 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 Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.
PROVERB Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
FRANCIS BACON I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever tru...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
DAVID DENMAN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
THOMAS ALDRICH Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human b...
EDWARD BOND What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create
anger where we never meant harm; and ...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare
SCOTT TUROW I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
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 A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. AUDEN Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN People are to be loved and things are meant to be used. Immorality occurs when things are loved and ...
MARIE MUHAMMAD It was often what Charlie didn’t say that spoke the loudest.
CHARLES MARTIN Some things are meant to be gone FOREVER.
ALYSON NOEL But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
ROBERT JORDAN He spoke often of his wife and his children. He was definitely a family man.
GINNY DYCHE Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
JEAN RHYS Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
JEAN RHYS I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Some things that you love are meant to leave.
ANDONI GARCIA People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
C.S. LEWIS The important things often are are the everyday things.
THOMAS J. POWELL 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 When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch.
THE BRAVERY There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
HAMLET I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and wor...
ERIK LARSON One of the reasons that I chose the 'Cantata' is its delightful and is not heard very often. There a...
JANE IVERSON I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character name...
WILLIAM GIBSON It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespear...
HILARY MANTEL I spoke with Joey on Wednesday and we are hoping to move things along within the next week or so.
STUART PEARCE 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 Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
CHARLES PALLISER Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that w...
JAMES MCAVOY The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.
ROBERT BUZZELL The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people
often smile, but seldom laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD