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Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor. — James Avery

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind! — William Shakespeare

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. — William Shakespeare

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm — William Shakespeare

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss

Every offense is not a hate at first. — William Shakespeare

Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. — William Shakespeare

Who is't can read a woman? — William Shakespeare

A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. — John Irving

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. — William Shakespeare

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man. — William Shakespeare

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare

They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad — William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born. — William Shakespeare

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. — William Shakespeare

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare

Swam ashore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. — William Shakespeare

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost ... — William Shakespeare

What is that, Shakespeare?"
"Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman. — Kami Garcia

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII) — William Shakespeare

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. — William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare

Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. — William Shakespeare

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. — Mark Rylance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. — Courtney B. Vance

O for a horse with wings! — William Shakespeare

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy? — Kathy Bryson

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. — William Shakespeare

It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians. — William Shakespeare

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;
I know not where I am nor what I do. — William Shakespeare

What a fool honesty is. — William Shakespeare

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? — William Shakespeare

A comedy isn't about being funny ... a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. — Gary D. Schmidt

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art. — William Shakespeare

Exit, pursued by a bear. — William Shakespeare

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. — Condola Rashad

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table. — William Shakespeare

Today in this household's obsession with researching pointless questions, I can confirm that Shakespeare cannot, in fact, ever have had a banana. — Debra Ferreday

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. — William Shakespeare

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion. — William Shakespeare

Love is a spirit all compact of fire. — William Shakespeare

Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night. Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. — William Shakespeare

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. — William Shakespeare

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings. — William Shakespeare

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. — Helen Keller

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound. — William Shakespeare

The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. — William Shakespeare

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. — William Shakespeare

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor mortals mad! — William Shakespeare

That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog. — William Shakespeare

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion. — William Shakespeare

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail. — Kathleen Tessaro

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not. — William Shakespeare

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none. — William Shakespeare

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing. — William Shakespeare

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts. — William Shakespeare

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. — William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. — William Shakespeare

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy? — William Shakespeare

Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare. — Amanda Bynes

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd; And I myself see not the bottom of it. — William Shakespeare

God didn't create us with such a huge power of thought and a divine capacity for reason in order for us not to use them, — Hamlet Shakespeare

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare. — Leo Tolstoy

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams! — William Shakespeare

Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. — William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. — William Shakespeare

Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
You are more lovely and milder,
Rough winds shake the sweet buds of May,
A summer is way to short. — William Shakespeare

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life. — Joss Whedon

This forced league doth force a further strife. — William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. — William Shakespeare

Contention, like a horse,
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him. — William Shakespeare

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. — Charles Dance

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. — William Shakespeare

The hate I bear thee can afford no better term then this: thou art a villian. — William Shakespeare

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart. — Maya Angelou

Some there be that shadows kiss / Such have but a shadow's bliss — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.' — Malorie Blackman

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. — William Shakespeare

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf. — William Shakespeare

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! — William Shakespeare

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry? — Kathy Bryson

But I will be,
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed. — William Shakespeare

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare