Shakespearean English Sayings

#1. 'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

Michelle Dockery

#2. His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.

Alan Dean Foster

#3. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

Roxane Gay

#4. Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Jean De La Bruyere

#5. There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

Sei Shonagon

#6. If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

#7. Seneca: Fate guides the willing but drags the unwilling.

Eric Greitens

#8. A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#10. As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

#11. Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Jimi Hendrix

#12. When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Avril Lavigne

#13. According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

Christopher Monckton

#14. You can't have two worlds in your hands
and choose emptiness.

Mary Szybist