Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim
I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim which...
Frequent suggestions were made during the course of the trial that the motives of the donor and the donees alike, in carrying out this transaction, were to escape death duties. I feel constrained to d...
. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.
[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.
When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows
Sweets to the sweet.
i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".
Frailty, thy name is human!
At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.
Thou art a very ragged Wart.
What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?
Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn’t remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had bee...