Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next...
such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.
At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.
It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally to popular biography, by which time it will be o...
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he th...
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.Shakespeare, Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving forward in a vertical plane (like the generality of projectiles, such as b...
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.
I gave you all! screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck, said Regan.
Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingl...
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
And nothing is, but what is not.
They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.
Women may fail when there is no strength in man
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
Heavy is the head that wears the crownWilliam Shakespeare
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