Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Shakespeare
«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.»
Author: Bill Hirst
| Keywords:
bacon, collected, Francis, Francis Bacon, Monkeys, plays, Shakespeare, typewriters
«I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, act of God, caviar, feeding, Shakespeare, slightly, soaring, tilt, tilted, tilting, tilts
«I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.»
Author: Spike Milligan
(Actor, Humorist)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
but then, reads, Shakespeare, sonnet, Sonnets
«I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.»
«I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
bacon, missed, Shakespeare, sir, Sirs, The Works, wrote
«Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.»
«If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Learning
| Keywords:
commentator, insignificance, Shakespeare, The Force