"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
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 Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking ho...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA 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 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 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 Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT What is the sin which is not
Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin
Or virtue?
UNKNOWN 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 Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtu...
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK 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 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Great strokes make not sweete musick.
GEORGE HERBERT 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 A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because w...
BARUCH SPINOZA Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.
JOHN ARLOTT 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 Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
ALBERT CAMUS Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
ALBERT CAMUS 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 Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhaust...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO 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 Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
EDGAR QUINET Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
EDGAR QUINET Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
HOSEA BALLOU Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and res...
ERNESTINE ROSE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
JOHN MILTON Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER We've not been able to place these brush strokes into the context of a wider canvas.
GRAEME STEPHENS Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself i...
KINGSLEY AMIS Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My name is not 'William Shatner.'
CHRIS PINE What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Different strokes, for different folks.
SLY STONE Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The problem is not going to go away by itself,
RICHARD GEPHARDT It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.
CHRIS STEVENS We can play better. If we can make up 10 strokes, we can do it. That's asking two strokes per man, a...
HANK DAVIDSON I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL 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 Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love...
DOREEN VIRTUE Why now? Why didn't we know this (then)? What happened to the discernment process?
DAVID VIRTUE We've grown up watching them and looking up to them as role models.
TESSA VIRTUE Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
PETER PORTER Little strokes fell great oaks.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The strokes are the hardest.
DONNA THOMPSON Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
AMANDA M. THRASHER To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make...
ALEXANDER POPE A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain whe...
MICHAEL GREGER After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first help...
C.S. LEWIS 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 In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO