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1318256 Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. insane mad madness shakespeare william-shakespeare Emilie Autumn
e808394 Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won first-lines opening-lines william-shakespeare witches William Shakespeare
3be3323 This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? piece-of-work quintessence-of-dust shakespeare soliloquy william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
ffef2ec What needs my for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? fame hallowed heir honour labor memory poetry pyramid relics shakespeare william-shakespeare John Milton
fd1d050 Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than ? In what respect was he the superior of ? Was he gentler than , more universal than ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of ? Did he express grander truths than ? Was his mind subtler than 's? Was his brain equal to 's or 's? Was he grander in death - a sublimer martyr than ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of , the greatest of the human race? baruch-spinoza bruno buddha buddhism cicero epictetus epicurus gautama-buddha giordano-bruno isaac-newton johannes-kepler kepler kindness laozi newton patience shakespeare socrates spinoza stoicism william-shakespeare wisdom zeno zeno-of-citium zoroaster Robert G. Ingersoll
f092bfe The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves. shakespeare the-fault-in-our-stars william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
9b385d9 So fair and foul a day I have not seen. william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
1b141ac The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love. macbeth play tragedy william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
381049f Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197 sex william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
64089e5 The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. shakespeare william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
7f742a0 They do not love, that do not show their love. friends gratitude insparational love william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
7ca45e3 La culpa, no esta en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos, que consentimos en ser inferiores. frases julius-caesar william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
24c57f0 Not like would I write, Not like if I might, Not like at his best, Not like or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all. dante-alighieri goethe homer johann-wolfgang-von-goethe shakespeare william-shakespeare William Allingham
19a5516 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
389e800 O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping. celia shakespeare william-shakespeare wonderful William Shakespeare
ed99b17 "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." - Lorenzo, Acte V, Scene 1" moonlight the-merchant-of-venice william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
fe55068 "Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights limerick middle-age old-age seven-ages-of-man william-shakespeare youth Robert Conquest
bdee976 These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
84fb759 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! julius-caesar mark-antony william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
10a4cf4 I understand a fury in your words But not your words. fury othello william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
fa4159a The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. ghost grasp hamlet math mathematics mental molecules science shakespeare stars study william-shakespeare Alfred North Whitehead
cc10a4f William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. die fade shakespeare-in-love william-shakespeare Marc Norman
22a3010 What, you egg? [He stabs him.] tumblr william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
cd4e71a A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. shakespeare william-shakespeare Bill Bryson
1235eac what ho, apothecary! romeo-and-juliet william-shakespeare William Shakespeare
c86d402 We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self. These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,--the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man. autumn beautiful birth brave death delight deny doubt dreams effort eternity fable fairy fear gods grief hateful haunted hope joy king-lear lake life love mountains music mystery nature pagan passion past perfection philosophies pleasure poetic punishment questions religion-myths sacred-books scorn shakespeare smiles spring summer tears tender thought throne true truth william-shakespeare winter woods Robert G. Ingersoll
f3f4998 "Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, george-washington james-watt phidias raphael shakespeare washington watt william-shakespeare wren Ralph Waldo Emerson
c6d7790 I sit with and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with and , where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon and ... and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. aristotle aurelius balzac dumas honoré-de-balzac marcus-aurelius shakespeare truth veil william-shakespeare W.E.B. Du Bois
fe1b286 Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God? alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bible bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri books burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes discoveries egypt euclid experiments fiction franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani goethe gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics india inspiration intelligence inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johann-wolfgang-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz libraries light luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics poets progress rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller science shakespeare songs the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation tragedy trevethick volta watt william-shakespeare writer Æschylus Robert G. Ingersoll
795c792 She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen. beautiful death dying edward-thomas gerard-manley-hopkins john-keats kate-atkinson literary-allusions literary-quotes quotes william-blake william-shakespeare william-wordsworth Kate Atkinson
07efdb7 When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came. extraordinary genius learning napoleon-bonaparte nurture raphael richard-wagner study talent thomas-edison training william-shakespeare Mark Twain
82ccab0 "One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein." archimedes bradman-class cambridge count-lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy einstein g-h-hardy godfrey-hardy godfrey-harold-hardy isaac-newton lenin leo-tolstoy lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy literature newton politics science shakespeare tolstoy vladimir-ilyich-lenin vladimir-lenin william-shakespeare C.P. Snow
f7e1dfe It is often said that what sets Shakespeare apart is his ability to illuminate the workings of the soul and so on, and he does that superbly, goodness knows, but what really characterizes his work - every bit of it, in poems and plays and even dedications, throughout every portion of his career - is a positive and palpable appreciation of the transfixing power of language. remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few could argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression. dedications enchanting four-hundred-years goodness-knows human-behavior human-behaviour joyous-possibilities plays poems possibilities power-of-language shakespeare the-soul transfixing verbal-expression william-shakespeare workings-of-the-soul Bill Bryson
01e055d William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite. Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet? muse shakespeare-in-love william-shakespeare Marc Norman
1279e8f In fact a favourite problem of is--Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily. faust favorite forces future goethe hamlet johann-wolfgang-von-goethe john-tyndall physics problem science shakespeare tyndall william-shakespeare Thomas Henry Huxley
c47842a "Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally from my INESTIMABLE FOLIO OF CANONICAL MASTERPIECES (sorry, I just do that sometimes), and get you all together. It's the least I could do. I mean, seriously. Those soliloquies in ? Sooo Hamlet and/or Othello, with maybe a little Shylock thrown in. Everyone from Pip in to freakin' Mr. Rochester in mentions my plays, sometimes completely mangling my words in nineteenth-century middle-American dialect for humorous effect (thank you, Sir Clemens). Many people ( Virginia Woolf ) just quote me over and over again without attribution. I hear James Joyce even devoted a chapter of his giant novel to something called the "Hamlet theory," though do you have some sort of newfangled English? It looks like gobbledygook to me. The only people who don't seek me out are like Chaucer and Dante and those ancient Greeks. For whatever reason. And then there are the titles. ? Mine. ? Mine. Proust, Nabokov, Steinbeck, and Agatha Christie all have titles that are me-inspired. ? Not just the title, but half the plot has to do with my work. Even Edgar Allan Poe named a character after my 's Prospero (though, not surprisingly, things didn't turn out well for him!). I'm like the star to every wandering bark, the arrow of every compass, the buzzard to every hawk and gillyflower ... oh, I don't even know what I'm talking about half the time. I just run with it, creating some of the SEMINAL TOURS DE FORCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. You're welcome." literary-influences william-shakespeare Sarah Schmelling
e841907 There were occasions when Shakespeare was a very bad writer indeed. You can see how often in books of quotations. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations. graham-greene quotes travels-with-my-aunt william-shakespeare Graham Greene
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