Quotes tagged ‘William Shakespeare’

“Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem po…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All or art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building—just an elaborate mating ritual.”

— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare, books.google.com

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our life is rounded with a sleep.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com