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.
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.
For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates.
Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.
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.
[Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening o...
For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
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.
We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a
For this last, Before and in Corioli, let me say, I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers; And by his rare example made the coward Turn terror into sport: as weeds before A vessel under sail, s...
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
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...
Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.
Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?Catherine: I cannot tell.Henry: Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.
If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the world or from books, he may be regarded as a prodigy; if represented...
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on te...
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.