Elizabethan Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.. — James M. Barrie
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and… — Mark Rylance
But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able… — Geoffrey Rush
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. — Jeanette Winterson
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple… — Rosemary Verey
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of… — James Fenton
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and… — H P Lovecraft
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without… — Terry Pratchett
Lord, what fools these mortals be! — William Shakespeare
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and… — Virginia Woolf
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things… — Diane Paulus
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we… — George Pierce Baker
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had… — Deborah Harkness
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — W R Inge
The relationship that Tony Blair has with Cherie Blair doesn't have an immediate binding effect on the body politic with Britain. But in the Elizabethan… — Tom Hooper

Who Wrote These Elizabethan Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Elizabethan Quotes as follows: