This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS 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: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "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 I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
ALAN YANG Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century
RALPH WALDO EMERSON William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY 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 Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
-...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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 Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST The two people who know the most about this are Monica Lewinsky and President William Jefferson Clin...
BILL MCCOLLUM I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Lever...
MICHAEL SWANWICK This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After God, Shakespeare has created most
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE 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 "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING I've done some directing, the most recent work was an off-Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet do...
CHARLES KEATING I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most ...
JOHN DRYDEN If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
SAM WATERSTON . . . Historical facts are all pervasive and cut through the most rigid barriers of race and caste.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without Willia...
KATE MIDDLETON Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER 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 She helped us cut through all the red tape and convinced the syndicate that this was a good thing.
GARY GROTH She helped us cut through all the red tape and convinced the syndicate that this was a good thing,
GARY GROTH I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
PHILIP MASSINGER I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to ent...
KELLY ASBURY It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass o...
MICHAEL BADEN It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring abo...
MANDY PATINKIN Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakes...
ANTONY SHER I think the festival does a good job of making Shakespeare accessible and helping to dispel this myt...
ROD WOEHLER But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
KATHY ACKER This was not an act of God. The negligence is pretty clear cut.
JOE RUSSO There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST on behalf of Charles, William, Harry and all my family and of all the Spencer family with us today.
EARL SPENCER The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged profession...
TREVOR NUNN Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
WILLIAM GADDIS I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
KANYE WEST We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The inspiration for this program was a bit of outrage, that students were graduating in the State of...
BRIAN CROWE I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the thing...
DAGMARA DOMINCZYK I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
BILL HIRST Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL The king shall cause a goldsmith who behaves dishonestly, the most nocuous of all the thorns, to be ...
GURU NANAK