Shakespeare Quotes
770 quotes by 565 authors
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity…
— James M. Barrie
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
— Brendan Behan
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that…
— Orlando Bloom
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
— Kenneth Branagh
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
— Robert Browning
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long…
— James Buchan
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks…
— A. S. Byatt
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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English…
— Nicolas Cage
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
— Leonard Cohen
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of…
— Karen Allen
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The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention…
— Bob Toski
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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
— Sarah Palin
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under…
— John Milton
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Shakespeare, I come !
— Theodore Dreiser
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Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only…
— Edwin Muir
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If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.
— Chris Jericho
Who Wrote These Shakespeare Quotes
565 authors contributed a total of 770 Shakespeare Quotes, led by these top contributors: