William Shakespeare Quotes

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

William Shakespeare

• Duty
• Simplicity
• Midsummer

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• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • May
  • Want
  • Grow

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Angry
  • Two
  • Getting

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• The general market wants what I do.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Market
  • Wants
  • General

• Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Because
  • Finding

• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Moving
  • Broken

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Death
  • Blue
  • Mysterious

• I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up

• We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Bible
  • Blessed
  • Authority

• May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • God
  • War
  • Duty

• There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • President
  • Constitution
  • Duty

• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Duty
  • Simplicity
  • Midsummer