Jennifer Grantham

Bibliophile & Anglophile

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs,
Because your breeches best may carry them."

King John ~ Act 3 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#TheHobbit

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Naughty lady,
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
Will quicken and accuse thee. I am your host.
With robber's hands my hospitable favours
You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?"

King Lear ~ Act 3 Scene 7

#ShakespeareSunday
{Bluebeard - Gustave Doré}

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"If I should tell my history, it would seem
Like lies disdain'd in the reporting."

Pericles ~ Act 5 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#TheVampireLestat

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
Into her scornful eyes."

King Lear ~ Act 2 Scene 4

#ShakespeareSunday
#JaneEyre

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"I have heard it said,
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife
Is when she's fallen out with her husband."

Coriolanus ~ Act 4 Scene 3

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#Poldark

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"We shall find a time, Audrey.
Patience, gentle Audrey."

As You Like It ~ Act 5 Scene 1

{All Creatures Great & Small}
#ShakespeareSunday

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"I'll tell thee more of this another time:
But fish not with this melancholy bait."

The Merchant of Venice ~ Act 1 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#Poldark

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"The interview,
That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass
Did break."

Henry VIII ~ Act 1 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#InterviewWithTheVampire

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Dame Margaret kneel'd to me
And on my head did set the diadem."

Henry VI Part II ~ Act 1 Scene 2

#ShakespeareSunday
#DowntonAbbey

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Was this before the king return'd?"

King Lear ~ Act 4 Scene 3

#ShakespeareSunday
#LOTR

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"At the parting all the church did echo.
And I, seeing this, came thence for very shame,
And after me, I know, the rout is coming,
Such a mad marriage never was before."

The Taming of the Shrew ~ Act 3 Scene 2

#ShakespeareSunday
#JaneEyre

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp."

A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Act 1 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
{The Phantom of the Opera}

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights."

-Sonnet 106

#ShakespeareSunday
{Romeo + Juliet, 1996}

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury;
and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring
her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted
and heart-burning heat of duty."

Love's Labour's Lost ~ Act 1 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#InterviewWithTheVampire

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain. He was
Then a crescent of note, expected to prove so worthy."

Cymbeline ~ Act 1 Scene 4

#ShakespeareSunday
#BlackSails

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"What is he whose grief
Bears such an emphasis? Whose phrase of sorrow
Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers?"

Hamlet ~ Act 5 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#LOTR

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"In this forest let us do those ends
That here were well begun and well begot."

As You Like It ~ Act 5 Scene 4

#ShakespeareSunday
#Hamnet

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead."

A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Act 5 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#InterviewWithTheVampire

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"What, doth she swoon? Use means for her recovery."

Henry VI Part III ~ Act 5 Scene 5

#ShakespeareSunday
#Poldark

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Gather'd the enchanted herbs
That did renew."

The Merchant of Venice ~ Act 5 Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
#LOTR