O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
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...
It seems only fair, Matthew continued. A bit of karma, if you will. He twirled the stake again. Shall we see how long you scream?Are you ever going to shut up? I snapped, fear and irritation filling m...
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,And for thy maintenance; commits his bodyTo painful labor, both by sea and land;To watch the night in sto...
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say?
I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
O mother, mother!What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,The gods look down, and this unnatural sceneThey laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!You have won a happy victory to Rome;But, for your son...
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,Nor the furious winter's rages;
O Luke, I would not lose thee as I lostDarth Vader. His betrayal made my lifeA bleak and tragic thing. Thy loss untoThe dark would make my death a hellish, coldEternity.
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and w...
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being bet...
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
It is said that [Shakespeare's] time was easier than ours, but I doubt it—no time can be easy if one is living through it.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much, said Iago.Methinks the lady protests just the right amount, said Emilia. Methinks the lady is just getting fucking started protesting.
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