#shakes

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. ↗

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#already #course #dominated #drama #dramatic

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#having #sense #shakes #shoulders #takes

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#even #i #shakespeare #tragedy #trained

We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of conscience. Then, by degrees, as we go on reading this world-teacher, lines of insight and beauty take possession of us, and unconsciously mould our judgments of men and things and of the great issues of life. ↗

— Charlotte Mason

#beauty

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#othello #shakespeare #love

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #parting #sadness #sorrow #sweetness

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#paris #revolution #shakespeare #stage #theater

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. ↗