If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. — Pearl Bailey
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. — William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. — William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. — William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Play Quotes
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. — Bill Russell
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. — Mark Burnett
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight. — Danai Gurira
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play — Tupac Shakur
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
And wonder'd at the work herself had made. — Charles Churchill
Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called Shakespeare at Winedale, which is out in the German Hill country in Texas , where you go out and live for two months and then you perform three plays at the end of that time. — Jenna Bush
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; But great minds rise above it.
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 brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. — Trevor Nunn
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? — Stan Lee
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. — Kenneth Branagh
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure. — William Shakespeare
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. — William Shakespeare
Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger. — William Shakespeare
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. — William Shakespeare
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? — William Shakespeare
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. — Diane Cilento
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. — William Shakespeare
For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates. — William Shakespeare
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause. — Simone de Beauvoir
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. — William Shakespeare
Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. — William Shakespeare
I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace. — William Shakespeare
Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. — William Shakespeare
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. — William Shakespeare
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. — William Shakespeare
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell. — William Shakespeare
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. — William Shakespeare
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence. — William Shakespeare
The poorest service is repaid with thanks. — William Shakespeare
She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me. — William Shakespeare
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts? — William Shakespeare
I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. — William Shakespeare
Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold? — William Shakespeare
I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist. — William Shakespeare
We will have rings and things and fine array — William Shakespeare
He kills her in her own humor. — William Shakespeare
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