{"quotes":[{"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":"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":"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.","author":"Bill Hirst","tags":["francis-bacon","monkeys","shakespeare","typewriters"],"id":2558,"author_id":"Bill+Hirst"},{"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":"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["dishonesty","good-name","libel","reputation","shakespeare","slander","society","standing","theft","value","values"],"id":5918,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"There's meaning in thy snores.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["humour","shakespeare","the-tempest","william-shakespeare"],"id":6781,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants. For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probably that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["evidence","history","shakespeare"],"id":6833,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"There’s no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.","author":"Kathy Bryson","tags":["fairies","ghosts","romantic-fantasy","shakespeare"],"id":8400,"author_id":"Kathy+Bryson"},{"text":"For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["literature","romance","shakespeare"],"id":10156,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Turn hell-hound, turn.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["macbeth","macduff","shakespeare"],"id":11860,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":516,"pages":52,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}