Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time. — Steven Spielberg
I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and… — Sheridan Smith
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,… — George Orwell
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus… — Thomas Carlyle
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is… — Imelda Staunton
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an… — D. A. Carson
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. — Mark Gatiss
The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose. — George Bernard Shaw
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. — Elizabeth Montagu
Just know on the inside that you won't quit. That's it. There is nothing else. Shakespeare said, 'To thine own self be true'. I don't… — Forrest Griffin
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. — Hesketh Pearson
A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get… — Joseph Epstein
Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the… — Mark Steyn
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education… — Bell Hooks
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. — Lord Byron
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… — Virginia Woolf
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered… — John Mortimer
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. — Laurence Olivier
When I was in junior high, I would carry around this huge volume of Shakespeare. I just like the romantic vibe. I write about it… — Fefe Dobson
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous… — William Ernest Henley
When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides,… — James Joyce

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