All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while,… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to… — Jess Winfield Copy Share Image
“We've all heard that millions of monkeys banging on millions of keyboards will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to… — Robert Wilensky Copy Share Image
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich -… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us.… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“He turned toward my voice. "Am I well?" His mocking tone was unmistakable. "Am I well? Why can't you just talk like… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare may have said it in Hamlet that "clothes maketh a man." And this may not be entirely wrong, as a man’s… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
“Were half to half the world by the ears and he Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make Only my wars with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers'… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She could envision Shakespeare's sister. But she imagined a violent, an apocalyptic end for Shakespeare's sister, whereas I know that isn't what… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The great chandeliers hang silent. The tables in the vast dining room overlooking the lake are spread with white cloth and silver… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
![“I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by…” quote by Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c30/harold-bloom-3350_feelings_i-won-t-say-he-shakespeare-invented-us-b_2229453.jpg)
