"And make a riot on the gentle brow Of true sincerity." King John ~ Act 3 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday {North & South}

"And in the ushering Mend him who can: The ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet." Love's Labour's Lost ~ Act 5 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday {#Frankenstein, 2025}

"I have delivered it an hour since. There is something in it that stings his nature, for on the reading it, he changed almost into another man." All's Well That Ends Well ~ Act 4 Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday #Poldark

"Death, Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd The bloody office of his timeless end." Richard II ~ Act 4 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"Fare you well; your suit is cold. Cold, indeed; and labour lost." The Merchant of Venice ~ Act 2 Scene 7 #ShakespeareSunday {North & South}

"With these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed To do him justice and revenge on you." King John ~ Act 2 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #CrimsonPeak

"Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait; His day's hot task hath ended in the west." -Venus and Adonis #ShakespeareSunday #Poldark

"The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, With torch-staves in their hand." Henry V ~ Act 4 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #LOTR

"Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh, And never throughout the year to church thou goest Except it be to pray against thy foes." Henry VI Part I ~ Act 1 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"Thou hast built a paper mill." Henry VI Part II ~ Act 4 Scene 7 #ShakespeareSunday {Elizabeth Gaskell, Author of North and South}

"I never saw a vessel of like sorrow, So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes, Like very sanctity, she did approach My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me." The Winter's Tale ~ Act 3 Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday #LOTR

"Call to me All my sad captains." Antony and Cleopatra ~ Act 3 Scene 13 #ShakespeareSunday #Poldark #BlackSails

"True, madam. He, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady." The Merchant of Venice ~ Act 1 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday {North & South}

"For death remember'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but a breath, to trust it error." Pericles ~ Act 1 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood! Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentations of poor Anne." Richard III ~ Act 1 Scene 2 #SpookyShakespeare #AnneBoleyn

"Ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost." Macbeth ~ Act 2 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

Stage Direction: A noise within: 'Let her come in.' Hamlet ~ Act 4 Scene 5 #ShakespeareSunday #CrimsonPeak

"As I suck blood, I will some mercy show. Follow me." Henry V ~ Act 4 Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"If this be true, which makes me pale to read it, Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still, Were not this glorious casket stored with ill." Pericles ~ Act 1 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday {Wuthering Heights, 1939}

"I speak not out of weak surmises, but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain as I expect my revenge." Cymbeline ~ Act 3 Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday #BlackSails