Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

Paul Thomas Anderson

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.

We entertained all of the big names. It was a high-volume operation. When the Lakers weren't playing, we had the Clippers and the (NHL's) Kings and concerts. It was some place.

We do this for coaches, teachers and all kinds of groups.

William Shakespeare

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

William Shakespeare

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

William Shakespeare

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

William Shakespeare

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

William Shakespeare

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings:— How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd...

William Shakespeare

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare

He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

William Shakespeare

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!

William Shakespeare

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons, Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus, Or any one of you, chop off your hand And send it to the King: he for the same Will send thee hither both thy sons alive, And that shall be the ransom for their fault.

William Shakespeare

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

William Shakespeare

An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma 'tween their amities, And many such-like as's of great charge, That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving time allow'd.

William Shakespeare

If you be King, why should not I succeed?

William Shakespeare

Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.

William Shakespeare

There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would.

William Shakespeare

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

William Shakespeare

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

William Shakespeare

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

William Shakespeare

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

William Shakespeare

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

William Shakespeare

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

William Shakespeare

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

William Shakespeare

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

William Shakespeare

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Matt Hasselbeck

We haven't been parading around town doing all kinds of things. We're here for one thing and that's to play football. We're not here to do all this other stuff.

Buck Showalter

We have not been kind to them, ... Between Whittleman and Danks and Teagarden, we have not been kind to the University of Texas. Maybe that's why Augie's here. Hey, maybe we'll sign Augie.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,