Shakespeare Quotes Quotes

“I love you, you know,’ he said conversationally. ‘Will you marry me?’
The manner in which he made this abrupt proposal struck her as being so typical of him that a shaky laugh was dragged from her. ‘Of all the graceless ways of making me an offer – ! No, no, you are not serious! you cannot be!’
‘Of course I’m serious! A pretty hobble I should be in if I weren’t, and you accepted my offer! The thing is that it is such a devil of a time since I proposed marriage to a girl that I’ve forgotten how to set about it. If I ever knew, but I daresay I didn’t, for I was always a poor hand at making flowery speeches.’ He smiled at her again, a little ruefully. ‘That I should love a bright particular star!”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

“But what if you are a smart girl in love? All because I was a book nerd didn’t mean, I didn’t feel, I didn’t want. Shylock had cried out in excess of pain, “If you prick me do I not bleed!” But a book nerd is not allowed to be human, to say “you make me melt” and still have her mind want something else entirely?”
― Candice Raquel Lee, The Innocent: A Myth

“Who are you? Or should I first present myself to you? I’m Damerel, you know.’

‘Yes, so I supposed, at the outset of our delightful acquaintance. Later, of course, I was sure of it.’

‘Oh, oh – ! My reputation, Iago, my reputation!’ he exclaimed, laughing again.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“to rush into the secret house of death...”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth”
― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“They do not love that do not show their love.
O, they love least that let men know their love.
(Which camp are you in?)”
― ~Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, scene II

“Epigraph, Chapter 20
"If this were played upon the stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
~William Shakespeare 'Twelfth Night”
― Beth Kendrick, Second Time Around

“Since Shakespeare had a like for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom, and kindness.” So now we can start the play!”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“Dear reader, mon frère, increasingly rare, and less and less willing to descend into the depths of unknown literature to find the new, remember well that, as the great Voltaire said, some sentences are worth more than entire libraries, and to quote Prospero, Me, poor man, my library was a dukedom large enough!... So, of his gentleness, knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from my own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom!”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“When you are about to trample on others, think that you will soon be trampled upon.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“Shakespeare, with his wisdom and creative ability, enhanced by his brilliant rhetoric, created works truly full of aphorisms and memorable phrases capable of distilling profound insights into human nature, ethics, politics, love, suffering, in practice, into the whole existence.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“To conclude this preface I would just like to add that certainly aphoristic literature, although of extreme philosophical, artistic, and often even scientific value, is not loved by the general public, less and less accustomed to reading, meditating and thinking, perhaps because they realize, even following the advice of certain pseudo intellectuals, that to be happy and carefree you must not make your brain work too much, however I remain of the opposite opinion, precisely to safeguard our humanity, and therefore I agree with the following concept expressed by John Stuart Mill and for this reason I continue to strive to promote the aphoristic genre, here is the pearl of the great English philosopher: "It is better to be a discontented man than a satisfied pig, to be Socrates unhappy than a contented imbecile, and if the imbecile and the pig are of a different opinion it is because they see only one side of the question.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Let’s make an example. Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.
Carl William Brown”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“Pardon is still the nurse of second woe”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure