#spear

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. ↗

— John Keats

#shakespeare #shakespeare

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#speech

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#macbeth #shakespeare #ambition

The game is afoot. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #adventure

Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #adversity

They do not love, that do not show their love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friends #gratitude #insparational #love #william-shakespeare

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#music #shakespeare #music

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#back #been #color #colored #feel