William Shakespeare Quotes
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed., edited by G. Blakemore Evans, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, act 3, sc. 2.
The infighting, jealousy and hatred of the Nazi leadership was extreme and not known until later. Hitler was the force that kept them from each others’ throats.
This is a very controversial Franklin quotation. In fact, Franklin never sent this letter to Strahan, but it is one of the most famous of the Franklin quotations. It was even famous in 1775. Franklin saw to it that copies of his “letter” reached most American newspaper editors, many of who reprinted it. It was not the first time that an American politician had made quotations for domestic consumption only, and it certainly was not the last. So Franklin never said this to his friend Strahan, but he did claim that he did to all who Americans who would listen. The result is that Franklin developed a reputation for really ‘telling off those Englishmen.’ This was important for him because since he had many friends and admirers in England, he was suspect to many anti-British Americans.
Simon Bolivar and other freedom fighters in South America used this quotation to justify numerous acts of retaliation against the Spanish troops controlling their countries.
He was a zealous monarchist who used all means necessary to defend the monarchy of Queen Isabel II.
The Flemmish city of Ghent needed a Governor. Peter Du Bois and a delegation of all classes of citizens approached Philip Van Artevelde whose father had been a successful governor to see if he would be interested in assuming the office. Many cities, while not democracies, did elect their ruler as for a time was done on Ancient Rome. He fared much better than his father with the citizens of Ghent, but because of Ghent’s independence and success, it drew the enmity of the Duke of Flanders and King Charles VI of France. They attacked Ghent and Van Artevelde was killed.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
