Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
“She should have read the damned play. She should have spent hours reading Shakespeare. The duke was making literature sound a lot… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its… — Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter Copy Share Image
I look at my women with a Shakespearean element too - the variant of emotions they are capable of - it's not… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a… — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“In actual fact, however, the revolt of Ibsen and Shaw against the conventional nineteenth century drama could very well be described as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I… — Kristoffer Polaha Copy Share Image
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for… — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been… — Paul Westhead Copy Share Image
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too… — Ro James Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare doesn't use flashbacks, and his characters are more likely to philosophize than to remember. (Margot Livesey)” — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers.… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
![“[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a shocker, but then it is. I guess so because I'm in it, so it's shocking that it's still on TV. People are still talking about it. Hey, I'm still getting royalty…” quote by Quindon Tarver](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b3/quindon-tarver-26055_checks_romeo-juliet-is-relevant-when-hamlet-and_1083521.jpg)
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