"How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!"
~
The Tempest
by
William Shakespeare
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
~
The Tempest
by
William Shakespeare
" . . . this is the short and the long of it."
~
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by
William Shakespeare
"We burn daylight."
~
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by
William Shakespeare
"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
~
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by
William Shakespeare
"Why, then the world's mine oyster. Which I with sword will open."
~
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by
William Shakespeare
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
~
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by
Charles Dickens
"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience."
~
Oliver Twist
by
Charles Dickens
"Oliver Twist has asked for more!"
~
Oliver Twist
by
Charles Dickens