In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
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.
Love is holy.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
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.
Miranda opened her eyes in time to see the sunrise. A wash of violent color, pink and streaks of brilliant orange, the container ships on the horizon suspended between the blaze of the sky and the wat...
My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just...
One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.
Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.
Populism may look like an embrace of the have-nots, but in reality it is a form of cynical exploitation. The unscrupulous leader has no actual interest in bettering the lot of the poor. Surrounded fro...
Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?
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...
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