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the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel. — Wayne C. Booth

If music be the food of love, play on rock on . William Shakespeare

- love evolution — Michelle Mankin

There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk. — William Shakespeare

Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask. — William Shakespeare

On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily. — William Shakespeare

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree. — Christian Cooke

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back. — William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side — William Shakespeare

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object. — William Shakespeare

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought. — William Shakespeare

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. — William Shakespeare

love thou the rose: yet leave it on its stem — William Shakespeare

And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ... — William Shakespeare

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him. — William Shakespeare

Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. — William Shakespeare

Good signiors, both, when shall we laugh? Say, when? You grow exceeding strange: Must it be so? Salar. We'll make our leisures to attend on yours. — William Shakespeare

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! — 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

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. — Amy Hempel

KING CLAUDIUS
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
HAMLET
Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. — William Shakespeare

Every thing in your hand if you bi lave
on God — William Shakespeare

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough! — William Shakespeare

Come on then, I will swear to study so
To know the thing I am forbid to know
- Berowne — William Shakespeare

Survival might be insufficient, she'd told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare. — Emily St. John Mandel

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you.
Posthumus — William Shakespeare

Nay, had I pow'r, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. — William Shakespeare

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. — Ion Tiriac

Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For I am sick when I do look on you.212 Hel. And I am sick when I look not on you. — William Shakespeare

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. — Scott Turow

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. — William Shakespeare

Sin will pluck on sin. — William Shakespeare

'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole. — William Shakespeare

Prologue to the omen coming on
- Horatio, Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. — William Shakespeare

Two lovely berries molded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. — William Shakespeare

We are such stuff 173 As dreams are made on — William Shakespeare

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. — William Shakespeare

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death. — William Shakespeare

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. — William Shakespeare

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him! — William Shakespeare

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end. — William Shakespeare

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on. — William Shakespeare

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. — Ruth Rendell

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. — William Shakespeare

Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King! — William Shakespeare

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on. — Tracy Letts

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little
of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion] — William Hazlitt

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse — William Shakespeare

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next. — William Shakespeare

Turns out there's a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites. — Kathy Bryson

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. — William Shakespeare

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? — William Shakespeare

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side. — William Shakespeare

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why! — George Bernard Shaw

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip! — 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

The chameleon Love can feed on the air — William Shakespeare

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that. — Richard Madden

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow — William Shakespeare

First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; — William Shakespeare

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare

I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, Fuck you, Shakespeare. — Jim Bouton

The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars. — William Shakespeare

Kneel not to me.
The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you;
The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,
And deal with others better. — William Shakespeare

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree. — William Shakespeare

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. — William Shakespeare

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head. — 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

On pain of death, no person be so bold. — William Shakespeare

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

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

This day's black fate on more days doth depend;
This but begins the woe, others must end. — William Shakespeare

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation. — Jean Webster

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

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors. — 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

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death. — William Shakespeare

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!' — Jack O'Brien

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me. — Andre Holland

Oh what man may hide inside, tho angel on the outward side. — 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

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. — William Shakespeare

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. — William Shakespeare

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. — Laurence Olivier

If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It — William Shakespeare

On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed. — William Shakespeare

Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back. — William Shakespeare

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. — William Shakespeare

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. — William Shakespeare

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant. — William Shakespeare

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. — William Shakespeare

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. — Joe Sabia

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be. — Kenneth Branagh

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! — William Shakespeare

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. — Ken Kesey