William Shakespeare Quotes
For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, Simon & Schuster, 2004, 5.2.103-104.
It it alleged that in the original quotation "warm piss" was the phrase used, but the delicacies of the times caused the biographer to clean it up.
When the delegate of Bulgaria to the U.N. Security Council accused Israel of firing the first shot in the Six-Day War, the Israeli delegate called the charge:
The assassination started a chain of events leading to World War I.
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.
