William Shakespeare Quotes

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

William Shakespeare

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• Fear
• Speak
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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• I literally don't think about Oscar.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Oscar
  • Literally

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
  • Question
  • Challenge

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Two
  • Director

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• I've been engaged a couple times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Couple
  • Been
  • Engaged

• I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Movie
  • Night

• When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Trust

• I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Bee

• When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Energy
  • Band

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Doubt

• Fay: You've been a widower for three days. Have you considered remarrying yet?McLeavy: No.Fay: Why not?McLeavy: I've been so busy with the funeral.

  

  Joe Orton
  • Why
  • Funeral

• Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Speak