Classic Quotes

Shakespeare Quotes

• "See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand:\O! that I were a glove upon that hand,\That I might touch that cheek." - Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Sc. 2
• "That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,\If with his tongue he cannot win a woman." - Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 3, Sc. 1
• "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there\Where most it promises; and oft it hits,\Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits." - All's Well That Ends Well, Act 2, Sc. 1
• "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." - King Richard III, Act 4, Sc. 4
• "Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough;\But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter,\To him that ever fears he shall be poor..." - Othello, Act 3, Sc. 3
• "They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what may be." - Hamlet, Act 4, Sc. 5
• "Let me not to the marriage of true minds\Admit impediments. Love is not love\Which alters when it alteration finds,\Or bends with the remover to remove." - Sonnets, 116
• "The more pity that fools may not speak wisely, what wise men do foolishly." - As You Like It, Act 1, Sc. 2

Spoon River Anthology Quotes

The Spoon River Anthology is my favorite poetry anthology. It's by Edgar Lee Masters, and each of the poems is really an epithet about the person from the town of Spoon River who died, written so cleverly that you get an immediate sense of what the person was like alive. Basically every type of person you've ever known can be found described in at least one of the poems in the anthology. I highly recommend it.

• "I ended up with a broken fiddle-\And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories.\And not a single regret." - Fiddler Jones
• "To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,\But life without meaning is the torture\Of restlessness and vague desire-\It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid." - George Gray
• "Following the flag,\Till I fell with a scream, shot through the guts.\Now there's a flag over me in Spoon River!\A flag! A flag!" - Harry Wilmans
• "What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,\Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?\Degenerate sons and daughters,\Life is too strong for you-\It takes life to love Life." - Lucinda Matlock
• "And as many voices called to me in life\Marvel not that I could not tell\The true from the false,\Nor even, at last, the voice that I should have known." - J. Milton Miles
• "Back of every soldier is a woman." - Lydia Puckett
• "But praise not my self-sacrifice,\And censure not their contempt;\I reared them, I cared for them, true enough!-\But I poisoned my benefactions\With constant reminders of their dependence." - Constance Hately
• "Do not let the will play gardener to your soul\Unless you are sure\It is wiser than your soul's nature." - Louise Smith

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