If Falstaff had stuck to martinis, he'd be with us today.

“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed…

— J.R. Partington

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

— William Shakespeare

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could…

— Bill Veeck

A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the…

— Maurice Sendak

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that…

— William Shakespeare

“If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving forward in…

— Peter Guthrie Tait

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even…

— Anonymous

How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do…

— John Keats

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

— William Shakespeare

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps.…

— Ray Stevenson

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

— William Shakespeare

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

— William Shakespeare

I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.

— Roger Allam

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

— William Shakespeare