#shakes

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#limerick #middle-age #old-age #seven-ages-of-man #william-shakespeare

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history. ↗

— Antony Sher

#basic #bear #been #career #doing

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#happy-ending #shakespeare #funny

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#macbeth #play #tragedy #william-shakespeare #love

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #william-shakespeare #love

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

Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#men #poet #relationships #rules #shakespeare-in-love

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

Sweets to the sweet. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #shakespeare #death