Golden Words of England

If the West is a culture of words, the East is a culture of silence. Yet in English literature we prize short sentences that are full of meaning, according to the saying of Shakespeare, "Brevity is the soul of wit." They may be called "golden words", according to the other saying that "Silence is golden". In this book I have chosen 100 such golden words gathered from the rich treasury of English literature, not least from the plays of Shakespeare.