Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the… — Amos Bronson Alcott
What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look… — William Shakespeare
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. — Samuel Johnson
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart… — David Ogilvy
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax! — Elias Canetti
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… — David McCullough
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. — Philip Massinger
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio
When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role! — Joseph Fiennes
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may… — Matthew Arnold
Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew. — Frederick Lenz
I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I… — William Shatner
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a… — William Shatner
I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke. — Nick Offerman
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for… — Ian Mckellen
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was… — Patrick Stewart
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and… — Henry Adams
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a… — William Kempe
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be… — Cressida Cowell
You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him. — Patsy Rodenburg
Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself… — Antony Sher
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't… — Antony Sher
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones. — Catharine Arnold

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