Shakespeare Fairies Quotes

#1. Some of the plants have obituary names: Iris, Basil, Rue, Rosemary, and Verbena. Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Elvis is the soul of discretion.

Kathy Bryson

#3. He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy?

Kathy Bryson

#4. You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?

Kathy Bryson

#5. My inner bitch could handle this peon without even breaking a sweat.

Kathy Bryson

#6. This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.

Kathy Bryson

#7. Now it is the time of night,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
And we fairies, that do run,
From the presence of the sun,
Follow darkness like a dream.

William Shakespeare

#8. Turns out there's a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.

Kathy Bryson

#9. It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

Jean Rhys

#10. Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a genius. No angels handed him his lines, no fairies proofread for him. Instead, he learnt techniques, he learnt tricks, and he learnt them well.

Mark Forsyth

#11. You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.

Kathy Bryson

#12. In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee;
Fairies use flower for their charactery.

William Shakespeare

#13. Elvis is in the kitchen and he's making eggs Benedict!

Kathy Bryson

#14. If you love your girl? Buy her books." A

Kylie Scott

#15. This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

Kathy Bryson

#16. If you see a fairy ring
In a field of grass,
Very lightly step around,
Tiptoe as you pass;
Last night fairies frolicked there,
And they're sleeping somewhere near.

William Shakespeare

#17. No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.

Frank Sonnenberg

#18. There's no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.

Kathy Bryson

#19. I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

Kathy Bryson

#20. They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

William Shakespeare

#21. I've worked with freshmen that were easier than this.

Kathy Bryson

#22. Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.

William Shakespeare

#23. Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quality.
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

#24. Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

William Shakespeare

#25. Maybe you're worried that I won't seduce you?

Kathy Bryson

#26. And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.

William Shakespeare

#27. O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you ...
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.

William Shakespeare

#28. I like children. If they're properly cooked.

W.C. Fields

#29. Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

Kathy Bryson

#30. In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed.

Gene Wolfe