Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.
At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.
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.
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...
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...
And nothing is, but what is not.
They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insu...
Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.
Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.
ANGELOFrom thee, even from thy virtue!What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?Ha!Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is IThat, lying by the violet...
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.
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
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.
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
Women may fail when there is no strength in man
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...
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.
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