#shake

Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than ever thou loved’st Cassius. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#julius-caesar #love #shakespeare #love

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#men

Coleridge’s description of Iago’s actions as "motiveless malignancy" applies in some degree to all the Shakespearian villains. The adjective motiveless means, firstly, that the tangible gains, if any, are clearly not the principal motive, and, secondly, that the motive is not the desire for personal revenge upon another for a personal injury. Iago himself proffers two reasons for wishing to injure Othello and Cassio. He tells Roderigo that, in appointing Cassio to be his lieutenant, Othello has treated him unjustly, in which conversation he talks like the conventional Elizabethan malcontent. In his soliloquies with himself, he refers to his suspicion that both Othello and Cassio have made him a cuckold, and here he talks like the conventional jealous husband who desires revenge. But there are, I believe, insuperable objections to taking these reasons, as some critics have done, at their face value. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#shakespeare #villains #motivational

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. ↗

— Lord Acton

#another #beg #does #either #eye

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. ↗

— Karen Allen

#appeal #be happy #commercial #could #doing

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#age #done #find #having #i

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#love #shakespeare #love

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. ↗

— William Billings

#rod #shake #their #tyrants

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#beauty #blow #easy #handshake #hear

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#every #gratitude #made #off #shaken