Shakespeare Quotes · Page 17

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

— Lord Byron

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

— Alex Trebek

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

— Lenny Henry

“I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.”

— Kathy Bryson

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

— Victor Hugo

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

— Helen Keller

“Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.”

— William Shakespeare

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under…

— Samuel West

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always…

— Brad Leland

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

— William Shakespeare

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in…

— Ntozake Shange

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be…

— Al Goldstein

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard…

— Ian Mckellen

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then…

— Stephen King

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

— Daniel Stern

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

— Gavin Friday

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

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

— Mary Pipher

“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

“If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more…

— Bernard Levin

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

— Ian Doescher

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

— Robert Wilson

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

— Joyce Brothers

“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

— Cynthia Ozick

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

— Claire Tomalin

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

— Amy Hempel

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

— Sam Neill

“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Ken Robinson

“There is magic in the web" Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)”

— William Shakespeare

“You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?”

— Kathy Bryson

“Just before we have sex, the question often is: To pee, or not to pee?”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

— William Shakespeare

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.”

— William Shakespeare

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

— Frederick Lenz