Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the ...
BRAND BLANSHARD
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE
To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"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 Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
IAN DOESCHER Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
BRENDAN FRASER
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
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN
Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON
Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Lord Polonius: Wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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 Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play...
AARON YOO William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS
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
Lord, keep my memory green.
CHARLES DICKENS
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH
So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can't just skip the boring parts."
"Of course I can skip the boring parts."
"How do yo...
GARY D. SCHMIDT
Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re ...
JOHN GREEN
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All enemies at their moment of death; become loving brothers.
ENRIQUE VEGA
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ...
JOHN GREEN
I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just ano...
JOHN GREEN
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question i...
GAYLE FORMAN
never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in...
JOHN GREEN
To each our own Hamlet.
JASPER FFORDE
I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER
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
What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON
I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice Willi...
KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice Willi...
KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespear...
JOHN LOGAN
I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Dear spiritual brothers and sisters, this beautiful morning I think everyone very fresh—outside ve...
DALAI LAMA Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his &...
MALORIE BLACKMAN We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget.
MICHAEL LIPSEY
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruct...
POPE BENEDICT XVI
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE
Though this be madness, yet there is method
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, u...
IAN MCKELLEN
Though this be madness, yet there is method
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great
EDWARD COKE
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help b...
P.G. WODEHOUSE
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unles...
IAN MCKELLEN The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
DEAN CAVANAGH
I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
LIZA MINNELLI
But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
JOHN DONNE
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember ...
JOYCE BROTHERS
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should ...
JOHN GREEN
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal c...
NATHALIE SARRAUTE On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare
SCOTT TUROW
Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
ANN BRASHARES In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged profession...
TREVOR NUNN
I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful m...
NATSUKI TAKAYA
Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the l...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simp...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simp...
JOSEPH RATZINGER
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
JOHN GREEN
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove...
THORNTON WILDER
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and tr...
VIRGINIA POSTREL