#shakespeare

"To be, or not to be: what a question!"

"But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?"

"Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death."

"[Thine] face is not worth sunburning."

"Educated men are so impressive!"

"I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it."

"What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?"

"He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…"

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

"What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell."

"Yesterday I memorized Shakespeare, and tomorrow I'm also going to memorize his first name."

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

"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."

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."

"Sweets to the sweet."

"I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table."Macbeth"

"[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!"

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"