Boast Quote by Leanda de Lisle

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King;

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare once said: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all…

— Haley James Scott

“Gentler than the Lanisters is dryer than the sea.”

— George R.R. Martin

“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks. —William…

— Lee H. Whittlesey

“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar”

— Lisa M. Collins

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current…

— John Dos Passos

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like…

— Carrie Preston

“He studied his hands, and by firelight, his expression was long-suffering to the point of martyrdom. Milly heard Shakespeare whispering from the shadows, Will…

— Grace Burrowes

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I…

— Anonymous

“But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.”

— Book of Isaiah