Shakespeare Quotes · Page 21

“The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.”

— Kim Askew

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

— John Irving

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

— Kanye West

“I have ridden out all the storms,” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…”

— Jeanette Winterson

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

— Gore Vidal

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Stan Lee

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is…

— Jeremy Irons

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil…

— Joseph Devlin

“West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets.”

— Avery Flynn

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as…

— William Shakespeare

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than…

— Vivien Leigh

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the…

— Julie White

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,…

— William Shakespeare

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with…

— Charlotte Mason

“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and…

— Ray Bradbury

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of…

— Ben Kingsley

“Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc.…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into…

— Keala Settle

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

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

— Jessica Lange

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

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

— Peter Brook

“What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.”

— Anonymous

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

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

— Anonymous

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

— Eugene Ionesco

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

— Cary Fukunaga

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Lenny Henry