Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. — Simon Callow
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is… — Simon Callow
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we?… — Michelle Dockery
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. — Anita Diament
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks… — Christopher Eccleston
The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig… — Jorja Fox
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a… — Danai Gurira
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard… — Peter Ackroyd
Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. — Bob Dylan
I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles. — Patty Loveless
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a… — Ben Jonson
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish. — James McAvoy
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ...… — Charlie Chaplin
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be… — David Crystal
The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm… — Colin Firth
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would… — Lukas Foss
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains… — Stephen Greenblatt
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. — Stephen Greenblatt
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. — Stephen Greenblatt
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure… — Stephen Greenblatt
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is… — Stephen Greenblatt
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what… — Stephen Greenblatt
I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play… — John Michael Higgins

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