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“[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping”
“Timon: Ill beat thee, but I should infect my hands.”
“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.”
“Walter looked like he could chew nails and still come back for a helping of chain link fence. Why cant Romeo and Juliet meet in a garden like in Downton Abbey? Romeo asked. I mean who meets on a ba...”
“Let not thy sorrow die, though i am dead.”
“Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.”
“Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of...”
“Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.”
“For all that beauty that doth cover theeIs but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.How can I then be elder than thou art?”
“But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,And, constant stars, in them I read such art,As truth and beauty shall together thriveIf from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;Or else of thee I progn...”
“Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they wi...”
“Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,And die as fast as they see others grow.”
“William Shakespeare...was baptized on April 26, 1564. When he was born is disputed, but anyone who argues that it was after this date is just being difficult.”
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance," said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?”
“Benedick: I protest I love thee.Beatrice: Why, then, God forgive me!Benedick: What offence, sweet Beatrice?Beatrice: You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about toprotest I loved you.Benedick: ...”
“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:They are the ground, the books, the academes,From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.”
“Ive attempted to bring together as many perspectives as possible, not in order to be exhaustivebut to celebrate the many different approaches to appreciating Shakespeare that there are possible”
“It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
“There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.”
