Peaseblossom Shakespeare Quotes

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. ~ William Shakespeare

What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their day-the theaters have had their day-the temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great heaven , and save more from Hell, than all the churches and chapels in New York-besides making money at the same time" "Shakespeare is the great genius of the drama, Scott of the novel, Milton and Byron of the poem, and I mean to be the genius of the newspaper press." James Gordon Bennett, editor ot he New York Herald in 1841 ~ Daniel Stashower

Not an angel of the air,
Bird melodious or bird fair,
Be absent hence! ~ William Shakespeare

You think I'll weep?
No, I'll not weep. Storm and tempest.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or e're I'll weep. - O Fool, I shall go mad. ~ William Shakespeare

You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare. ~ David Plotz

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead ~ William Shakespeare

When devils will the blackest sins put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows ~ William Shakespeare

Like Niobe, all tears. ~ William Shakespeare

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. ~ Alexis Denisof

I don't like to see Shakespeare in a theater. I like to see Shakespeare in the park. ~ Neil Simon

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. ~ William Shakespeare

Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. ~ William Shakespeare

Salisbury:
Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:
'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,
Being opposites of such repairing nature.
York:
I know our safety is to follow them;
For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,
To call a present court of parliament.
Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.
What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?
Warwick:
After them! nay, before them, if we can.
Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:
Saint Alban's battle won by famous York
Shall be eternized in all age to come.
Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:
And more such days as these to us befall! ~ William Shakespeare

The blessedness of being little!!!
~ William Shakespeare

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself. ~ William Shakespeare

Lay these Bones in an unworthy Urn,
Tombless, with no Remembrance over them. ~ William Shakespeare

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? ~ Jay-Z

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness! ~ William Shakespeare

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. ~ William Shakespeare

Not Hercules148 Could have knocked out his brains, for he had none: ~ William Shakespeare

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. ~ William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes. ~ William Shakespeare

LEELA: 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.' That is a very stupid question!
THE DOCTOR: It's Shakespeare.
LEELA: And that is a very stupid name. You do not shake a spear, you throw it! Throwspeare, now that is a name. ~ John Dorney

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away. ~ Stephen King

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend. ~ William Shakespeare

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. ~ Samuel Johnson

Such a mad marriage never was before. ~ William Shakespeare

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare. ~ Marcel Proust

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. ~ Roger Ebert

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. Reading deeply in the Canon will not make one a better or a worse person, a more useful or more harmful citizen. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality. W ~ Harold Bloom

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha? ~ William Shakespeare

O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain,
And once made perfect, never lost again. ~ William Shakespeare

A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. ~ William Shakespeare

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest. ~ William Shakespeare

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
And wonder'd at the work herself had made. ~ Charles Churchill

In a place like Paris, the air is so thick with dreams they clog the streets and take all the good tables at the cafés. Poets and writers, models and designers, painters and sculptors, actors and directors, lovers and escapists, they flock to the City of Lights. That night at Polly's, the table spilled over with the rapture of pilgrims who have found their temple. That night, among new friends and safe at Shakespeare and Company, I felt it too. Hope is a most beautiful drug. ~ Jeremy Mercer

It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
Farewell. ~ William Shakespeare

It's literally true, as Shakespeare said
all the world's a stage. It wasn't that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That's why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it's still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going. ~ Gary Cooper

Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs? ~ William Shakespeare

Drink down all unkindness. ~ William Shakespeare

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. ~ Victor Hugo