O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
Your honour's players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy,For so your doctors hold it very meet,Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of...
We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of c...
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to...
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye o...
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it...
Yet but three come one more.Two of both kinds make up four.Ere she comes curst and sad.Cupid is a knavish lad.Thus to make poor females mad.
The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.
A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the...
The rest is silence.
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,Nor the furious winter's rages;
We number nothing that we spend for you;Our duty is so rich, so infinite,That we may do it still without accompt.Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,That we, like savages, may worship it.
There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.
I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.
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