William Shakespeare Quotes

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.

In "Mystery Train" (1955), he rocks out with an astounding depth, Elvis' voice never sounding so rich, nor so pleading; best of all is his final spontaneous laugh & whoop of excitement, worth its weight in gold.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world;
But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social

Richard II by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

He loved me true did Harry-boy and I loved him true, and if the happiness we gave each other was wicked and wrong in the eyes of the Law and the Church and God Almighty, then the Law and the Church and God Almighty can go dig a hole and fall down it.

Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The head tumbles between the legs
like a wooden ball
you fall, dark night
in the eyes,
the door a span away
inaccessible
you are on your knees
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