Shakespeare Quotes · Page 10

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

— Ralph Fiennes

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

— John Milton

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

— Adrian Dunbar

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

— Al Pacino

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

— Joss Whedon

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

— Stephanie Beatriz

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.”

— William Shakespeare

“Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

— William Shakespeare

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare. Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here

— Eminem

If we had been doing Shakespeare in doublet and hose for the past 500 years, it might have disappeared.

— Jason Watkins

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

— Anonymous

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he…

— James M. Barrie

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say,…

— Howard Barker

I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare,…

— Joseph Fiennes

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human…

— Simon Callow

“That's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high…

— Huxley, Aldous

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a…

— Steve Antin

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span…

— Michael Franti

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and…

— JoJo

“At the top of the heap is poetry,at least as it used to be written.Nothing else goes far,nothing goes as deep n…

— Jeffrey Moore

“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He…

— William Shakespeare

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one…

— James Callis

“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use…

— William Shakespeare

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either…

— David Hume

“Let’s test the Shakespearean model in the real world. Imagine a production called Gates and Schmidt, based on Romeo and Juliet. Montague…

— Peter Thiel

“If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving…

— Peter Guthrie Tait

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

— John Dryden

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

— Mark Rylance

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

— Stephanie Beatriz

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

— Jack L. Chalker

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

— Anonymous

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

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