{"author":"William Shakespeare","author_id":"William+Shakespeare","total_quotes":1244,"quotes":[{"text":"I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on endLike quills upon the fretful porpentine.But this eternal blazon must not beTo ears of flesh and blood.List, list, O list!","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["fear","hamlet","hamlet-s-father","horror","storytelling","threats"],"id":1137,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Happy thou art not  for what thou hast not  still thou striv'est to get  and what thou hast  forget'est.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":1473,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease;Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,The uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approve,Desire his death, which physic did except.Past cure I am, now reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,At random from the truth vainly express'd;For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["147","shakespeare","sonnet","sonnets"],"id":1565,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"What's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["identity","labels","names","personality"],"id":1634,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["determination","motivation","self-confidence","willpower"],"id":1799,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["music","shakespeare","the-merchant-of-venice"],"id":2540,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"What a fool honesty is.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["honesty","play"],"id":3799,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table.' Macbeth.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["happiness","joy","life","party","shakespeare","toast"],"id":3990,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["good-acts","good-intentions","goodness"],"id":4094,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"My only love sprung from my only hate.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["hate","love"],"id":4387,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1244,"pages":125,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}