Shakespeare 27s Sonnets Quotes

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.
Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend. ~ Dan Simmons

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. ~ Carol Zaleski

The course of true love never did run smooth. ~ William Shakespeare

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ~ William Shakespeare

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena ~ William Shakespeare

Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare's plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture. We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly. ~ D. A. Carson

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? ~ David Mamet

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look. ~ Jasper Fforde

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. ~ Charlton Heston

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania ~ William Shakespeare

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ... ~ C.S. Lewis

I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty ~ William Shakespeare

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. ~ Tori Amos

Haply for I am black,
And have not those soft parts of conversation
That chamberers have; or for I am declined
Into the vale of years - yet that's not much
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief
Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad
And live upon the vapor of a dungeon
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great ones;
Prerogatived are they less than the base.
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. ~ William Shakespeare

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And, assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour. ~ William Shakespeare

Willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona
I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing ~ Frank O'Hara

Of all matches never was the like. ~ William Shakespeare

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own ~ William Shakespeare

I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?"
"And are there?"
"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about ~ John Green

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. ~ William Shakespeare

But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.

Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"

So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer. ~ Bob Dylan

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ~ William Shakespeare

If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink,
Your own handwriting would tell you what I think. ~ William Shakespeare

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. ~ Samuel Johnson

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me. ~ Charles Bukowski

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! ~ William Shakespeare

There's only a very small representation of girls among you. Too little. Women have much to tell us in today's society. Sometimes we are too machistas and we don't allow enough space to women. But women can see things from a different angle to us, with a different eye. Women are able to pose questions we men are unable to understand. Look out for this fact: she is the only one who has put a question for which there is no answer. She couldn't put it into words but expressed it with tears. ~ Pope Francis

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family. ~ Pope Francis

Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare ~ Stephen King

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare. ~ Lisi Harrison

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production. ~ Helen Mirren

There is none but he
Whose being I do fear; and under him
My genius is rebuked, as it is said
Mark Antony's was by Caesar. ~ William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. ~ James Joyce

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy. ~ Jon Favreau

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value. ~ Barack Obama

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. ~ Alanis Morissette

Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. ~ William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ~ William Shakespeare

I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go. ~ William Shakespeare

Earthly love ... is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God's love, God's voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them. ~ Donald Miller

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing. ~ George Eliot

On this side my hand, and on that side yours.
Now is this golden crown like a deep well
That owes two buckets, filling one another,
The emptier ever dancing in the air,
The other down, unseen and full of water:
That bucket down and full of tears am I,
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. ~ William Shakespeare

Fare thee well/ A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell. ~ William Shakespeare

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her. ~ William Shakespeare

The most important history is the history we make today. ~ Henry Ford

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
The one's for use, the other useth it. ~ William Shakespeare

The spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes. ~ William Shakespeare