Jean Plaidy Quote

It’s not his friendship I miss,’ Elizabeth said bluntly. ‘It’s him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can’t eat without him, I can’t do the...

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spe...

I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome ev...

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.