Shakespeare Quotes

“Well said, old mole!”

— Shakespeare

“Shakespeare never did this.”

— Charles Bukowski

“All's well that ends well.”

— Anonymous

“Shakespeare's state of mind”

— Virginia Woolf

“In my mind's eye”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, I come !

— Theodore Dreiser

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom

“Real love is booty grabbin”

— Janey McGregor

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

— Michael Tippett

“Kill yourself or not, at Street Fashions!”

— Greg Sestero

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

— Sharon Tate

Do you really not know who wrote Romeo and Shakespeare?

— Richard

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

— Ashish Sharma

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

— Jackson Browne

“This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.”

— Patricia Briggs

When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.

— Thea Sharrock

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

— Judi Dench

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.

— George Weinberg

“Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?”

— William Shakespeare

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

— Teller

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

— Jonathan Kozol

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

— Sam Waterston

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

— Jay-Z

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of…

— Oscar Isaac

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it,…

— Rufus Sewell

Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a…

— Antony Sher

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre…

— Tim Crouch

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust…

— M. C. Gainey

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret…

— Andy Serkis

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a…

— Walter Isaacson

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They…

— Roger Rees

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then…

— Stephen King

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all…

— Walter Kaufmann

“There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most…

— Agatha Christie

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns…

— Milan Kundera