Be patient, Ophelia.
Love,
Hamlet
Tags: shakespeare
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!
Tags: love poetry shakespeare hate death
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
William ShakespeareTags: shakespeare
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
Susan SontagTags: shakespeare history jewish mozart race racism
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
William ShakespeareTags: wisdom shakespeare haste
Et tu, Brute?
William ShakespeareTags: shakespeare betrayal brutus julius-caesar
Sweets to the sweet.
William ShakespeareTags: love shakespeare death
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.
Dave BarryTags: humor shakespeare marriage
What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.
Adam LongTags: humor paraphrased shakespeare romeo-and-juliet
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: shakespeare futility foolishness
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