Shakespeare Quotes · Page 21

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

— Aya Cash

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

— Thomas More

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”

— Rebecca Serle

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

— Simon Callow

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

— Tallulah Bankhead

“Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".”

— Bill Shakespeare

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the…

— Harold Bloom

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on…

— Marcia Gay Harden

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I wonder if Shakespeare ever had to write a play in 10 days while suffering from jet-lag? Probably. It would explain why…

— Richard Herring

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the…

— John Dos Passos

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets…

— Noel Coward

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on…

— Neil MacGregor

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie

[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I…

— Laurence Olivier

Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are…

— Carter Ratcliff

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father…

— Felicity Kendal

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would…

— Raymond Chandler

“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare…

— Henry David Thoreau

“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I…

— Virginia Woolf

I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when…

— Seanan McGuire

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Aficionados”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

— Julia Gregson

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

— Eddie the Eagle

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

— David Boreanaz

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

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

— Edgar Allan Poe

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

— George Santayana

“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall." - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1”

— William Shakespeare