“Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that. — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the… — Julie White Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet,… — Robert Wilensky Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“All Renaissance drama, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, is profoundly concerned with shifting power relations within society. The individual was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image