Shakespeare Quotes · Page 12

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

— Scott Turow

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

— Anna Torv

The magic word 'Shakespeare' always freezes you in your chair.

— Howard Jacobson

Shakespeare's a fraud??!! Then who am I supposed to be pretending that I've read?!

— Anonymous

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

“What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.”

— Michael Cunningham

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind…

— Rufus Wainwright

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles…

— Stephen Fry

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying…

— Mark Helprin

One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the…

— Mariette Hartley

“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked…

— Greg Weisman

When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century…

— Sam Wanamaker

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean…

— C.P. Snow

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to…

— Tracie Thoms

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd…

— Ishmael Beah

I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or…

— Gregory Doran

“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No…

— G.K. Chesterton

IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I’m having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, ‘Oy Tony!’ I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see…

— Antony Sher

“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can…

— Paul Barnes

“I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.”

— William Shakespeare

“Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!”

— William Shakespeare

“Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.”

— Kathy Bryson

Shakespeare is for everybody, not just for toffs with a cauliflower down their tights.

— Lenny Henry

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

— Samuel Johnson

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

— Stan Lee

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

— George Bernard Shaw

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

— Alex Cox

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

— Peter Brook

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

— James Joyce

I've been lucky enough to do a tiny bit of Shakespeare onstage over the years.

— Adrian Dunbar

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

— Vanessa Redgrave