Shakespeare Quotes · Page 11

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

— Dean Koontz

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

— Bertrand Russell

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

— Charles Churchill

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

— Dan Devine

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of…

— Spike Milligan

“This blood feud is a bit too Shakespearean, if ye want the truth. I’m no Montague, and ye’re no Capulet.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

— Anthony Hopkins

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T

“willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past…

— Frank O'Hara

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

— Anonymous

“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

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'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

Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of…

— Peter Brook

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in…

— Charles Lamb

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary…

— Gavin Friday

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part.…

— Daniel Stern

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and…

— William Shakespeare

“shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself.…

— Mary Pipher

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the…

— Howard Jacobson

“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which…

— Tom Stoppard

“O join us, friends and mortals, on the scene— Another chapter of our cosmic tale. Luke Skywalker returns to Tatooine, To save…

— Ian Doescher

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

— Robert Browning

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

— John David Washington

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

— Alan Cumming

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

— Greta Garbo

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

— Lenny Henry

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

— Lauren Hutton

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

— Janet Suzman

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

— George Orwell

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

— Peter Greenaway

“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.”

— Kevin N. Fair

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

— Ray Fearon

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

— Zoe Wanamaker

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

— Peter Hambleton

I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.

— Rebecca Serle