Quote by William Shakespeare

“Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir." "By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.”

— Chaim Potok

“The old marchioness had him tracing down bed hangings and carpets for her. Send that. Be here. To her, all the world was a…

— Hilary Mantel

“This is in thee a nature but infected; A poor unmanly melancholy sprung From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place? This slave-like…

— William Shakespeare

“Carpe Rectum. Seize the hot ass the good Lord has provided.”

— Valerie Z. Lewis

“Remember I’m from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the…

— John Kennedy Toole

“Now get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans”

— James Herbert

“C-3PO —Thou shalt not label me A mindless, brute philosopher! Nay, nay, Thou overladen glob of grease, thou imp, Thou rubbish bucket fit for…

— Ian Doescher

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat,…

— Edmund Morris

“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy, and, properly…

— John Steinbeck

“I drove home, selected and marked my first series of readings, and drove back to Montagu Square, with a dozen works in a carpet-bag,…

— Wilkie Collins