457 Quotes About Shakespeare

Pray know that I a wampa simple am, and take no pleasure in my angry mood. Though with great force this young one's face I slam, I prithee know I strike but for my food.

„REY I’d rather not be in thy presence now.KYLO Yea, also could I say the same to thee.REY [aside:] How shall I speak to this deshirted manAnd hope to focus on the conversation?[To Kylo:] Say, wherefore didst thou hate thy father kind?Hast thou no cloak or towel thou canst use?[Kylo dons his doublet.

Nay, Nay! Try thou not.But do thou or do thou not, For there is no "try.

Impressive, most impressive, worthy lad,Thine Obi-Wan hath taught thee well, and thouHast master'd all thy fears. Now, go! ReleaseThine anger, for thy hate alone can strikeMe down!

O Luke, I would not lose thee as I lostDarth Vader. His betrayal made my lifeA bleak and tragic thing. Thy loss untoThe dark would make my death a hellish, coldEternity.

That's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

For where Love reigns, disturbing JealousyDoth call himself Affection's sentinel;Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!

Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.