Born Quote by William Shakespeare

“And in thy best consideration check This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgement Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, Nor are…

— William Shakespeare

“Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love's name, Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise Your angry head and…

— Robert Graves

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one…

— William Blake

“You were so quick to judge, weren’t you? Ah, you revealed so much with that contemptuous utterance. And I admit to being amused at…

— Steven Erikson

“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of his words…

— Umberto Eco

“Had it pleased heaven To try me with affliction; had they rain'd All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head. Steep'd me…

— William Shakespeare

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have…

— Samuel Johnson

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Observe him, for the love of mockery”

— Shakespeare

“Furthermore—” “There’s a ‘furthermore’?” His voice was utterly inflectionless. “—I’m not a child. I’m a lady born of one of England’s finest and oldest…

— Julie Anne Long

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn…

— Elizabeth I

“Oh, I am so sick of the young men of the present day!” exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument. “Poor, puny things, not…

— Charlotte Brontë