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.

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

Richard II by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

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

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it's me!

In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest.
They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.

The resistance should no longer be directed solely against the occupation. The resistance is to the regime in place in Israel. Her imprisonment is the regime and she opposes the regime under whose boots she lives.

In Banaras, according to Ibn-ul-Asir, Shihabuddin’s slaughter of the Hindus was immense, “none was spared except women and children,” who were destined to be made slaves.

At the confluence of East and West, Bucharest rose above its communist past into a city whose historical influences are reflected in the contrasting architectural fusion, a traditional-meets-modern outlook, and a stream of social happenings.