I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.

William Shakespeare

Tags: feelings william-shakespeare fury othello

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What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Robert Graves

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Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.

William Shakespeare

Tags: william-shakespeare richard-iii english-literature english-theatre elizabethian-theatre

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I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius... and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Tags: truth shakespeare william-shakespeare aristotle veil alexandre-dumas balzac honoré-de-balzac marcus-aurelius aurelius dumas

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He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Tags: science shakespeare admiration drama honor praise william-shakespeare recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist

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They are all but stomachs, and we all but food.
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us.

William Shakespeare

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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

C.P. Snow

Tags: humor science shakespeare literacy funny illiteracy scientists culture william-shakespeare thermodynamics standards double-standard educated second-law-of-thermodynamics

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Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

Carl Friedrich Gauß

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