Famous quotes containing the words william shakespeare, william and/or shakespeare:
“I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of the north, he
that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast,
washes his hands, and says to his wife, “Fie upon this quiet
life! I want work.””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind—
He found it less exciting.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“O, if you raise this house against this house
It will the woefullest division prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)