Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of… — John Dos Passos
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the… — Gilbert Highet
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the… — Thomas Love Peacock
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and… — Ian Fleming
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. — Ian Fleming
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by… — Harold Bloom
Shakespeare is universal. — Harold Bloom
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk… — Harold Bloom
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. — Eugene Ionesco
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a… — Mark Burnett
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in… — Steven Moffat
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God… — Jorge Luis Borges
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and… — Anthony Burgess
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. — Jonathan Raban
As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did. — Zoe Wanamaker
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. — Zoe Wanamaker
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but… — Zoe Wanamaker
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as… — Leonard Maltin
Shakespeare feels very natural to me. — Bebe Neuwirth
I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place.… — Kunal Nayyar
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority. — Sam Neill
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was… — Trevor Nunn

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