William Shakespeare Quotes

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

William Shakespeare

• England
• Lips
• Eloquence
• Council
• Witchcraft

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• I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Team
  • Passionate
  • England

• When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Dark
  • Lips
  • Nose

• I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Dog
  • England
  • Go

• Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • England
  • Recognized

• Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Favorite
  • England
  • Before

• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Women
  • Look
  • Lips

• Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Members
  • Council
  • Membership

• I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Evidence

• We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Sea
  • Hard
  • England

• I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Bedroom
  • Candles

• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Lips

• With head upraised, and look intent,And eye and ear attentive bent,And locks flung back, and lips apart,Like monument of Grecian art,In listening mood, she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Art
  • Listening
  • Mood

• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Music
  • Working
  • England

• Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.” “Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distracting.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Fun
  • Lips

• The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Up
  • England
  • Sum

• There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Lucky

• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • England
  • Plane
  • Inches

• I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Food
  • Mean
  • England

• England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Country
  • England
  • Pianos

• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Differences

• One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Should
  • Perfection
  • Pursue

• You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • England
  • Lips
  • Eloquence