Shakespeare Quotes · Page 23

“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Ken Robinson

“There is magic in the web" Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)”

— William Shakespeare

“You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?”

— Kathy Bryson

“Just before we have sex, the question often is: To pee, or not to pee?”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

— William Shakespeare

“Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.”

— William Shakespeare

“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we…

— Ajay Naidu

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what…

— Andre Holland

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

— Tom Hooper

“I read that I profess, the Art of Love. Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art! Lucentio: While you,…

— William Shakespeare

“. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if…

— Meredith Willson

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

— Dodie Smith

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in…

— Heinrich Heine

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“And yet, even when all was well, as Shakespeare said, that ends well, did they say ‘Hey, Kendra, we understand that you…

— Alex Flinn Bewitching

“After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another law by…

— W.H. Auden

“Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings…

— Ian Wilson

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the…

— George Edward Woodberry

“ Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to remain within: that is the question: Whether 'tis…

— Henry N. Beard

“The character and the play of Hamlet are central to any discussion of Shakespeare's work. Hamlet has been described as melancholic and…

— Ronald Carter

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more.…

— Dustin Hoffman

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

— Frederick Lenz

“How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?”

— Rebecca Serle

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

— Robert Gottlieb

“Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.”

— William Shakespeare

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

— Joyce Brothers

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

— Robert Wilson

“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

— Claire Tomalin

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

— Cynthia Ozick

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

— Amy Hempel

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

— Sam Neill

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to…

— Joel Grey

“All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

— Courtney B. Vance

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

— Dyan Cannon

“Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.”

— William Shakespeare