The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering… — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as “breake that deer, leach… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at sea smote… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“In Elizabethan England you will only find small codpieces. Large ones, stuffed with wool and looking like an erect male member, are… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should… — Bayard Louis Copy Share Image
If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
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