Shakespeare Idiocy Quotes

O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! ~ William Shakespeare

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group. ~ Amish Tripathi

The April's in her eyes: it is love's Spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.. ~ William Shakespeare

Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet. ~ Joshua Cohen

Trip away;
Make no stay ~ William Shakespeare

Great griefs medicine the less. ~ William Shakespeare

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. ~ Mary Wortley Montagu

All that comes above the surface [of the globe] lies within the province of Geography; all that comes below that surface lies inside the realm of Geology. The surface of the earth is that which, so to speak, divides them and at the same time 'binds them together in indissoluble union.' We may, perhaps, put the case metaphorically. The relationships of the two are rather like that of man and wife. Geography, like a prudent woman, has followed the sage advice of Shakespeare and taken unto her 'an elder than herself; but she does not trespass on the domain of her consort, nor could she possibly maintain the respect of her children were she to flaunt before the world the assertion that she is 'a woman with a past. ~ Charles Lapworth

Woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see ~ William Shakespeare

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . . ~ William Shakespeare

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden contaminates the human race; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew suffices to safe it. Perhaps Schopenhauer is right: I am all others, any men is all men, Shakespeare is in some way the wretched John Vincent Moon. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

If you love her, you cannot see her. ~ William Shakespeare

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. ~ William Shakespeare

Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live. ~ William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see . ~ William Shakespeare

This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it. ~ William Shakespeare

Great men should drink with harness on their throats. ~ William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won. ~ William Shakespeare

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. ~ William Shakespeare

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. ~ Elizabeth Montagu

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated. ~ Mary Shelley

If one has once read Shakespeare with attention, it is not easy to go a day without quoting him, because there are not many subjects of major importance that he does not discuss or at least mention somewhere or another, in his unsystematic but illuminating way. ~ George Orwell

Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
But 'banished' to kill me
'banished'?
O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
To mangle me with that word 'banished'? ~ William Shakespeare

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words,
Remembers me of his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ~ William Shakespeare

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.' ~ William Shakespeare

IAGO
Can't help it? Nonsense! What we are is up to us. Our bodies are like gardens and our willpower is like the gardener. Depending on what we plant - weeds or lettuce, or one kind of herb rather than a variety, the garden will either be barren and useless, or rich and productive. If we didn't have rational minds to counterbalance our emotions and desires, our bodily urges would take over. We'd end up in ridiculous situations. Thankfully, we have reason to cool our raging lusts. In my opinion, what you call love is just an offshoot of lust. ~ William Shakespeare

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop. ~ 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

Oh, I am fortune's fool! ~ William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us. ~ William Shakespeare

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. ~ William Shakespeare

God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish. ~ William Shakespeare

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare. ~ Nina LaCour

CELIA: For since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes great a show. ~ William Shakespeare

This thought is as a death. ~ William Shakespeare

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God. ~ William Shakespeare

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets."
Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not. ~ William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' ~ Simon Callow

A very ancient and fish-like smell. ~ William Shakespeare

By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,
And that no woman has, nor never none
Shall mistress be of it save I alone. ~ William Shakespeare

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. ~ Robert Wilensky

I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin. ~ William Shakespeare

And yet, even when all was well, as Shakespeare said, that ends well, did they say 'Hey, Kendra, we understand that you made a noble effort. Why not come to the palace for some champagne sometime?' Noooooo. They're all, 'Get thee from our kingdom, witch, or it's the guillotine." They're lucky I didn't turn them into talking swine. ~ Alex Flinn

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows. ~ William Shakespeare

Set we forward; let
A Roman and a British ensign wave
Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
And in the temple of the great Jupiter
Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace. ~ William Shakespeare

I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself. ~ William Shakespeare

When your friend lies to you it's not his fault but actually is your's, because you didn't give him proper space to tell the truth. ~ William Shakespeare

Hamlet | Act I, Scene III

POLONIUS:
Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There, my blessing with thee.
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee! ~ William Shakespeare