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 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 "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 I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO 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 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 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 Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
AMBROSE BIERCE 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 Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our prog...
DAVID A. BEDNAR I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
DAN DEVINE 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 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 He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his i...
THOMAS KEMPIS 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 Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 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 Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Coul...
ANN BRASHARES Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.
JEANETTE CORON Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON We're making progress on K Street because the times they are a-changing.
DAN COHEN I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS 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 In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible throu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsibl...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 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 To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your h...
WILLIAM BLAKE The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearab...
MALCOLM LOWRY Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the smal...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Being stared at is not fun . . . There are times when someone on the street says, "Are you William H...
WILLIAM HURT I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, Eternity! Eternit...
STEPHEN GRELLET They have all come out at different times and made nice progress and done some real positive things.
BILL FARRELL We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance ...
SIGMUND FREUD Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD 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 Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who cham...
IAN MCKELLEN When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTH Ingersoll i...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH This is eternity, Antanasia," he said, both warning and imploring. "Eternity.
BETH FANTASKEY History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, bu...
GERALD R. FORD Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare: The Biography,
PETER ACKROYD Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
MARY PARRISH Eternity forbids thee to forget.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Murderer ain't fit to eternity.
TOBA BETA In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
CHRISTOPHER FRY William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE