Jacobean Quotes

#1. Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

James Fenton

#2. During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed. So our job becomes to keep peace with enemy camps, eliminate the chaos at the end of Jacobean tragedies, and with 'the mercy of distance' write the histories.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion - that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.

Erik Larson

#4. The classical writers ... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

Timothy West

#5. All of Shakespeare's plays were written under this law of censorship, which is why they are set in the past or in foreign countries, separated from the hot topics of Elizabethan and Jacobean England by the dramatic distance of time or space.

William Shakespeare

#6. Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Christopher Eccleston

#7. I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.

Nicholas Haslam

#8. The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Lawrence Hargrave

#9. I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

Nicola Sturgeon

#10. Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.

John Webster

#11. Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

John Webster

#12. The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Amy Goodman

#13. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

Murray Rothbard

#14. To stand out is to be known for something outstanding

Sunday Adelaja

#15. we dismiss vulnerability as weakness only when we realize that we've confused feeling with failing and emotions with liabilities.

Brene Brown

#16. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.

Paul Hoffman

#17. The loss of ... honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

William Bradford

#18. You must first believe and trust God, use what he already gave you including common sense, f**k what someone else thinks about you and the rest will come naturally.

Michael James Jackson

#19. Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

#20. I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

Olympia Dukakis