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 suppose the fundamental distinction between Shakespeare and myself is one of treatment. We get our effects differently. Take the familiar farcical situation of someone who suddenly discovers that so...
I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table. Macbeth
To be and not to be, that is the quantum question
Elvis is the soul of discretion.
Mother, you have my father much offended.
[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spe...
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
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...
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...
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
By the power of the Tri-Force, I command you to "-------
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.
I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.
I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
Brutus: Kneel not, gentle Portia.Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, Is it excepted I should know no secrets That appertain to you? Am I...