Quotes about William shakespeare

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When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinar — Mark Twain, How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women
My grief lies all within — and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear — Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence. — William Shakespeare
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus, and we petty menWalk under his huge legs and peep aboutTo fi — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Some there be that shadow kiss — Such have but a shadow's bliss.
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thou — C.P. Snow
I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words. — William Shakespeare, Othello
I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond — no more no less.
All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus — there is no virtue like necessity.
GON. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!ANT. The ground indeed is tawny.SEB. With an eye of green in 't.ANT. — he doth but mistake the truth totally.
Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chap — Robert Conquest
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel — I know not where I am nor what I do.
My hands are of your colour — but I shame To wear a heart so white.
William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. — Marc Norman, Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
I'll find a day to massacre them allAnd raze their faction and their family,The cruel father and his traitorous sons,To — William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, co — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. — Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile — Filths savour but themselves...
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama. — Robert G. Ingersoll