“A plague on both your tweets! I am sped. Is he gone and hath tweeted?”
“A tweet, a tweet, my kingdom for a tweet!”
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite tweets”
“All that twitters is not gold”
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely tweeters”
“Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think because thou art tweeting there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
“Be great in act, as you have been in tweets”
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born tweeters, some achieve tweets, and some have Twitter thrust upon ‘em”
“Beware the tweets of March”
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s twitterings”
“But soft, what tweet through yonder window breaks?”
“Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will tweet”
“Cowards die many times before their tweets, the valiant never tweet of death but once”
“Done to death by slanderous tweets was the Hero that here lies”
“Et tu, Brute? Then tweet, Caesar!”
“For when the noble Caesar saw him tweet, ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, quite vanquish’d him”
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, send me your tweets”
“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal tweetings in me”
“God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true tweets!”
“Good night, good night! Tweeting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall tweet good night till it be morrow”
“He who has tweeted thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, tweet him; if stronger, tweet thyself”
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such tweets in’t!”
“How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous Twitter is!”
“How now? A tweet? Dead, for a ducat, dead!”
“How poor are they that have not Twitter!”
“I am hurt. A plague a’ both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone and hath tweeted?”
“I am not bound to please thee with my tweets”
“I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no tweeter, as Brutus is”
“I come to tweet it wealthily in Padua; if wealthily, then happily in Padua”
“I follow him to serve my tweet upon him”
“I have seen a tweet that’s able to breathe life into a stone, quicken a rock, and make you dance canary”
“I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains to tweet”
“I pray thee cease thy tweets, which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve”
“I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of Twitter”
“I tweet the world but as the world, Gratiano, a stage where every man must tweet a part, and mine a sad one”
“I wasted time, and now doth Twitter waste me”
“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not tweet with you”
“I wish you well and so I take my leave, I pray you know me when we tweet again”
“If it were tweeted, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly”
“If this were play’d upon a stage now, I could tweet it as an improbable fiction”
“If tweeting be the food of love, tweet on”
“Ill deeds are doubled with an evil tweet”
“In a false tweet there is no true valour”
“In time we hate that which we often tweet”
“In Twitter there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility”
“Is this a tweet which I see before me?”
“Is tweeting nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?”
“Journeys end in lovers tweeting, every wise man’s son doth know”
“Let me not think on’t – Frailty, thy name is Twitter!”
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our tweets hasten to their end”
“Love all, tweet a few, do wrong to none” (All’s Well That Tweets Well)
“Love tweets not with the eyes but with the mind”
“My words fly up, my tweets remain below”
“Nothing emboldens sin so much as Twitter”
“Nothing will come of nothing, tweet again”
“Now go we in content to tweet, and not to banishment”
“Now is the winter of our discontent made into a glorious tweet by this son of York”
“O brave new world that has such tweeters in’t!”
“O coward conscience, how dost thou tweet me!”
“O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me tweet”
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore tweet thou Romeo?”
“O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a tweet I die”
“O villain, villain, tweeting, damned villain!”
“O, beware, my lord, of Twitter; it is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on”
“O, how this spring of love tweeteth the uncertain glory of an April day”
“O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not tweeting what they do!”
“Oft Twitter fails, and most oft there”
“One that tweeted not wisely but too well”
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Twitter”
“Out, damn’d tweet! out, I say!”
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a tweet”
“Shall I bend low and in a bondman’s key, with bated breath and twittering humbleness”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou tweet more lovely and more temperate”
“Shall in these confines with a monarch’s tweet cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war”
“Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these tweeters be”
“So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus tweeting begins and worse remains behind”
“So wise so young, they say do never tweet long”
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with tweets”
“Something is tweeting in the state of Denmark”
“Strong reasons make strong tweets”
“Such tweets as dreams are made on”
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty tweet”
“Sweet are the uses of Twitter, which, like a toad, though ugly & venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head”
“That man that hath a tweet, I say is no man”
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our tweets, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”
“The lady doth tweet too much, methinks”
“The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds, is not fit for Twitter”
“The quality of tweets is not strained”
“The trust I have is in mine tweets, and therefore am I bold and resolute”
“The tweets are number’d that make up my life”
“The tweets of true love never did run smooth”
“There are more tweets in heaven and earth, Horatio”
“Think you I am no stronger than my tweet?”
“This was the noblest tweeter of them all” (Julius Caesar)
“Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own tweets”
“Though Twitter be madness, yet there is method in’t”
“To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there’s the tweet”
“To tweet, or not to tweet: that is the question”
“Tweet ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war”
“Tweet it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell”
“Tweet of newt, and tweet of frog, tweet of bat, and tweet of dog”
“Tweeting what is lost makes the remembrance dear”
“Tweets are made to bear, and so are you” (Tweeting of the Shrew)
“Twitter is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly”
“Twitter should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no tweet can utter”
“We should be tweet’d and were not made to tweet”
“What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet tweeting?”
“What’s here? the portrait of a blinking idiot, presenting me a tweet! I will read it”
“What’s in a name? That which we tweet by any other name would smell as sweet”
“When shall we three tweet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?”
“When tweeters die there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes”
“Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous tweets”
“Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with Twitter will open”
“Why then tonight let us tweet our plot” (All’s Well That Tweets Well)
“With bated breath and tweet’ring humbleness”
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, he tweets too much; such men are dangerous”
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Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author, journalist, broadcaster and film director. He is also a celebrated national treasure, cultural icon and British institution. This is a small collection of quotations attributed to him.
