"For I am nothing if not critical...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

“Beauty, wit,High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,Love, friendship, charity, are subjects allTo envious and calumniating time.”

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

“There is only good art and mediocre art.”

“In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'”

“I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”

“The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.”