(88 quotes found)
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.”
William Shakespeare
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W. H. Auden
“Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”
John Keats
“I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot”
Mark Twain
“Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.”
George Meredith
“My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play”
Francis Quarles
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.”
John Dryden
“One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds”
Proverb
“Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.”
Charles Churchill
“preposterous plot, specious and false.”
Rene Angelil
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