Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5.
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
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 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
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER
I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be the man you wish your father was and you don't have to keep saying, but my father wasn't around.
JAWAR I just wish that my father was still alive to see how far we have come as African Americans,
HARRY JACKSON 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 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations; according to th...
BIBLE The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt...
BIBLE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO
[I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first...
MARGARET COURTNEY From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
SAUL LEITER
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT
With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country...
PHILIP SIDNEY And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, Wh...
BIBLE
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 Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insi...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William ...
TIM HUNT
Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth:
That thine alms m...
BIBLE
If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And tho...
KHALED HOSSEINI
Though desolateThe way may seem, command thy fate.Send forth thy thought -Create--CREATE!
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thenc...
BIBLE I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I ...
KATE NASH
I definitely could relate to the father aspect of the script because although my father is alive, I ...
ORLANDO BLOOM
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 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my ...
BIBLE
O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phras...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did w...
BIBLE My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE
The wish is the father of the deed
AMERICAN PROVERB
I just wish I could understand my father.
MICHAEL JACKSON
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I pl...
ERIN MORGENSTERN
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy naiad airs have ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not...
ANNE BRONTë And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all th...
BIBLE
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
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father?
TOBA BETA Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many...
BIBLE Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false ...
BIBLE
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, wa...
ALLEN WEST But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my na...
BIBLE
I wish I were the lily's leaf
To fade upon that bosom warm,
Content to wither, pale and brief,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespear...
JOHN LOGAN William: Sorry about the "surreal but nice" comment.
Anna Scott: Don't worry, I thought the who...
NOTTING HILL Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek
Thy loving childern here in them thy c...
W.S. GILBERT
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ...
BIBLE And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
BIBLE
My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having ...
DARLENE LOVE
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats...
HOWARD NEMEROV