They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
Love is holy.
to pee or not to pee that is the question
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
I’m having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, ‘Oy Tony!’ I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see Michael Gambon in the lunch queue. …Gambon tells me the story of Olivier auditioning...
Although the absurdity of the demagogue’s rhetoric was blatantly obvious, the laughter it elicited did not for a minute diminish its menace. Cade and his followers will not slink away because the trad...
You gotta be cruel to be kind.
The curse of true love never did run smooth.
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...
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,Nor the furious winter's rages;
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
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...
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
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...