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There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.
— William Shakespeare
Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
— William Shakespeare
So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them.
— Mark Forsyth
But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.
— William Shakespeare
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
— William Shakespeare
Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content.
— William Shakespeare
It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.
— John Irving
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare
Yet, fortune cannot recompense me betterThan to die well, and not my master's debtor. — 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
Prosperity's the very bond of love.
— William Shakespeare
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
— Frank McCourt
All's well that ends well.
— William Shakespeare
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.
— William Shakespeare
My love's more richer than my tongue.
— William Shakespeare
'Tis brief, my lord ... as woman's love.
— William Shakespeare
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
— William Shakespeare
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient foolArt thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
— 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
Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
— William Shakespeare
For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
— William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
— William Shakespeare
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.
— William Shakespeare
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
— Kenneth Branagh
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
— John Foster
Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.
— Kenneth Branagh
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
— Steve Coogan
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
— William Shakespeare
Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.
— William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
— Orlando Bloom
He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
— William Shakespeare
Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
— William Shakespeare
Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
— Liaquat Ahamed
They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.
— Rebecca Serle
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
— William Shakespeare
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
— William Shakespeare
There's small choice in rotten apples.
— William Shakespeare
One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
— William Shakespeare
And she's fair I love.
— William Shakespeare
What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.
— Reduced Shakespeare Company
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. — William Shakespeare
A young man married is a man that's marred.
— William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty (All's Well That Ends Well)
— William Shakespeare
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
— William Shakespeare
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What's making you sad and your hours so long?- Not having the thing that makes them short. — William Shakespeare
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
— William Shakespeare
She's so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her. The
— William Shakespeare
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
— William Moseley
This is some minx's token,
— William Shakespeare
men's eyes were made to look and let them gaze
— William Shakespeare
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
— Michael J. Saylor
One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.
— Terry Teachout
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
— William Shakespeare
Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.
— William Shakespeare
Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold. The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Sc.4
— William Shakespeare
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak windsDo sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush. — 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
It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians.
— William Shakespeare
Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
— William Shakespeare
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
— William Shakespeare
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;I know not where I am nor what I do. — William Shakespeare
Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.
— William Shakespeare
What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
— William Shakespeare
This day's black fate on more days doth depend;This but begins the woe, others must end. — William Shakespeare
It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
— William Shakespeare
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
— Rob Delaney
The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.
— 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
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
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
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
Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
— William Shakespeare
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
— William Shakespeare
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
I'll lock thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare
But I will be,A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed. — William Shakespeare
OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!
— William Shakespeare
What's done cannot be undone.To bed, to bed, to bed. — William Shakespeare
Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.
— Frederick Lenz
It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.
— Amanda Craig
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
— Rabih Alameddine
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
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
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
Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.
— 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
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wingsand soar with them above a common bound. — William Shakespeare
