At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found...

To think, or not to think…This is the true question.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

I can’t tell you, it’s very bad news, might need it.” And I never went back there, Tone. Home on the bus, heart still thumping away. A whole new world ahead. We tend to forget...

Real love is booty grabbin

I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that ‘the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is...

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

He did recall that the summer after graduating from college before he joined the state police he had read Shakespeare. It was the pure language that stupefied him. He would be in a diner reading...

I know Verona as I do my own body.

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Life… is a paradise to what we know of death.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Et tu, Brute?

When I do count the clock that tells the time,And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;When I behold the violet past prime,And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white;When lofty trees I see...

In my mind’s eye

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called “fools”.

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

I think Shakespeare said it best, when he said whatever he said about whatever he was talking about.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy?

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock...

They think thee mad? I’ll show thou mad, my lord.

this dust of that fire.

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and...

Shakespeare ‘never owned a book,’ a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions....

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and...

Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

During the Government’s recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe two Shakespeare plays for...

Be patient, Ophelia.Love,Hamlet

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter...

Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all.

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?

Like the ‘good’ characters in literature, the sane don’t have any memorable lines.

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

Not like Homer would I write,Not like Dante if I might,Not like Shakespeare at his best,Not like Goethe or the rest,Like myself, however small,Like myself, or not at all.

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...

I know that David Tennant’s Hamlet isn’t till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early,...