Gloucester Quotes:

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

- William Shakespeare

topic: God, Sports, Boys, Wanton, Lear

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

- Beatrix Potter

source: Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

topic: Gentleman, Gold, Ruffles, Gloucester

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2004). “King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.36, Sparklesoup LLC

topic: Humility, Night, Odds, Gloucester

the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.

- Marsden Hartley

topic: Easter, Islands, Race, Rite, Easter Island

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Father, Believe, Boston, Hampshire, Gloucester

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.786, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Hate, Peers, Done, Gloucester

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

- James Buchan

source: "Judgment Day... again". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

topic: Generations, World, Succeed, Dispassionate, William The Conqueror

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

topic: Greatness, Sea, Vapour, Gloucester

In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.

- Mike Tindall

topic: Couple, Able, England, Playing Rugby, Gloucester

I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my husband. I was playing Regan and he was playing Cornwall and together we fell in love plucking out Gloucester's eyes. It was great fun. Everyone assumes that I was Cordelia because I've got blonde hair but I was Regan and they gave me a long auburn wig. It was great, good fun.

- Ashley Jensen

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Kings, Husband, Fun, Good Fun, Auburn

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.478

topic: Kings, Men, Climbing, King Henry, Falcon

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Nice, Dark, Fog, Gloucester, Revolver