Romeo and Julietbegins with a Chorus, which establishes the plot and tone of the play. This device was hardly new to Shakespeare, and in fact echoes the structure of Arthur Brooke'sThe Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, the poem that served as Shakespeare's inspiration. However, the Cho...
"Could you describe the ruckus, sir?" – Brian Johnson, "The Breakfast Club" (1985) "It's showtime!" – Beetlejuice, "Beetlejuice" (1988) "I see you're drinking 1 percent. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to."...
of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to be under the wrath of God themselves; for, like those who write of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy or on Spanish politics, they seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe. —...
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false, and the false with the t...
“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.”– Lemony Snicket, The...
his affection, tells the musicians assembled before him to continue playing so that he can be sated with music instead of the love that will forever evade him. Orsino hopes that more music will cause him to lose his appetite for Olivia, like eating too much so that one is no longer ...
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. —John Holmes 53 When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. —Kristan Higgins ...
Bud feels that his suitcase is the most important thing in the world. He rarely lets it out of his sight. Inside are all his prized possessions, which connect him back to his mother, whom he loved deeply. What are four adjectives to describe Bud's suitcase's exterior?
. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all...
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish proverb Love is the chain that links earth to heaven. ~Thomas Clark Henley,A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861 Helen Barnet knew all about love. Had she not lisped its praises in odes to the moon in her high-school days...