#shakespeare

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humor #irony #shakespeare #humor

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love-story #romance #shakespeare #writing #humor

He kills her in her own humor. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #taming-of-the-shrew #humor

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ass #braggart #bragging #humility #humor

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#othello #shakespeare #love

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #parting #sadness #sorrow #sweetness

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#paris #revolution #shakespeare #stage #theater

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#copy #cry #crying #despair #fall

By the power of the Tri-Force, I command you to "------- ↗

— Prashna Bari

#funny #link #shakespeare #triforce #zelda

To be, or not to be: what a question! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#faust #funny #humor #marlowe #philosophical-humor