Shakespeare asked what’s in a name. Well, each of my clones won’t be named the same as me, but they’ll be me and just as sweet.

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the...

Turns out there’s a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear....

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall 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.

How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?

From too much liberty, my Lucio, libertyAs surfeit is the father of much fast,So every scope of the immoderate useTurns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, –...

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Yet but three come one more.Two of both kinds make up four.Ere she comes curst and sad.Cupid is a knavish lad.Thus to make poor females mad.

The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

There is this quote that I read a long time ago. A quote that I loved and made me feel strong. It had stuck with me over the years, like so many of the other...

He was not of an age, but for all time!

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o’er!”The red plague rid you!”Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!”As wicked dew as e’er my mother brushed with raven’s feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.”Strange...

Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, “I wish I had known this some time ago.

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. [“On the Ignorance of the...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too...

Julietă- Hău- Unde ești?- Nu îți spun- Dezdemona- Desigur- Vreau să te întreb ceva foarte important- Spune- Păi…- Atunci scrie- C t e ceasul?

Men from children nothing differ.

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.

No temáis a la grandeza; algunos nacen grandes, algunos logran grandeza, a algunos la grandeza les es impuesta y a otros la grandeza les queda grande.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a...

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than...

No, I am thy father.

Here’s one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it’s damn hard sometimes to tell what he was talking about. Look, the sheer fact...

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that’s all right.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

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,...

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection’s edge in me.

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...

Well said, old mole!

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we’re all going to die, we’ve all got to live in the meantime…

If you want more people to come to the theatre, don’t put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays...

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

I have written about other worlds often enough. I have said what I can say. There are many kinds of reality. This is but one kind.

This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without...

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They died together; they’ll always be remembered together. It’s decided, once and for all. He was hers.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…