Shakespeare Quotes · Page 14

“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!

— Louise Rennison

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

— Mark Rylance

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan

“Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.”

— John Green

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

— Ted Lange

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

— Daniel Craig

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning. William Shakespeare, Henry V

— William Shakespear

“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to…

— Nina LaCour

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was…

— George III

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

— James McAvoy

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

— Robert Benchley

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language…

— George Edward Woodberry

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are…

— George Bernard Shaw

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did…

— Jonathan Hickman

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

— Roger Rees

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No…

— Suzanne Weyn

“She could envision Shakespeare's sister. But she imagined a violent, an apocalyptic end for Shakespeare's sister, whereas I know that isn't what…

— Marilyn French

The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That…

— John Logan

“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she…

— John Green

“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven!…

— William Shakespeare

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture,…

— James Shapiro

“God is not an actor within the larger scheme of things. He is not a muscle-bound Jupiter, bullying the littler ones. He…

— Douglas Wilson

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

— Tim Crouch

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

— Laurence Olivier

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

Drama, drama, drama with tons of victim scripts Shakespeare said the worlds a stage isn't it time for a new script.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

— Raquel Cepeda

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

— Tim Crouch

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

— Orlando Bloom

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

— Denzel Washington

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

— Eloisa James

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

— Terri Windling

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

— Peter Riegert

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

— Vint Cerf

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

— Marshall McLuhan

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

— Duke Ellington