Shakespeare Quotes · Page 12

“There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.”

— John Green

I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those.

— Jason Watkins

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really.

— Diane Morgan

“As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going”

— Jeff VanderMeer

Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare.

— Amanda Bynes

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

— Brendan Behan

“Clearly Hamlet wasn’t just a fictional Prince of Denmark but also something of an alpha dodo.”

— Anonymous

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I wanted to go to drama school really badly, but I'd never been to a theatre. I had no knowledge of Shakespeare.…

— Jamie Demetriou

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed…

— Christopher Eccleston

“You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the…

— Stephen King

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under…

— Elizabeth Montagu

“Fact: You are part Shakespeare. You are part Jack the Ripper. You are part dinosaur. You are part of a star that…

— Anne Clendening

“He remembers the first time he saw Olivia, and how he had felt that she cleared the air of all pestilence, and…

— William Shakespeare

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very…

— Robert Graves

“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

“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

“ 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

“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

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had…

— Orlando Bloom

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had…

— Neil MacGregor

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

— Zoe Wanamaker

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

— Rob Delaney

“What is that, Shakespeare?" "Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman.”

— Kami Garcia

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

— Martin Freeman

I'll moider da bum - when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

— Tony Galento

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“enough monkeys with enough typewriters can give you Shakespeare, so”

— Nat Kozinn

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Spike Milligan

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

— John Keats

I've done some Shakespeare and I was really scared, but I am pleased I did it.

— Amanda Redman

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

— Olivia Thirlby

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

— Victor Hugo

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

— Ellen Terry