And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still...
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Bill Bryson
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
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William Shakespeare
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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William Shakespeare
All's well that ends well.
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By William Hazlitt
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with...
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
The old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life-- Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
The path of genius is free, and its own
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our
