Shakespeare Quotes · Page 19

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

— Michael Rosen

“Quality is quality,” Jin said. “Age is irrelevant. No one bitches about Shakespeare fans.”

— Andy Weir

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

— Renee O'Connor

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

— Sam Wanamaker

“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”

— Adam Phillips Going Sane

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

— Samuel West

“ Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns .”

— William Stewart Ross

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

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

— John Dryden

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and…

— Gustav Stresemann

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

“He quite certainly shouldn't care: and still he feels a hot sick bubbling in his gut, as if he'd drunk turned milk,…

— Alex Ankarr

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

“It seems only fair," Matthew continued. "A bit of karma, if you will." He twirled the stake again. "Shall we see how…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If we knew thoroughly the nervous system of Shakespeare . . . we should be able to show why . . .…

— William James

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever…

— Hugh Laurie

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to…

— Jimmy Smits

I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I…

— Tim Matheson

Shakespeare said all the worlds a stage if it is then I suggest you to perform better than anyone else.

— Vikrant Parsai

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

— Basil Rathbone

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

— Edward Hall

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.

— William Bateson

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is…

— Robert Graves

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.”

— William Shakespeare

“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?”

— Alan Bradley

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

— Mandy Patinkin

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

— Eric Schmidt

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.

— Sophie Okonedo

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

— Robin Williams

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

— T. S. Eliot

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause”

— William Shakespeare

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

— John Foster