Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon… — George Bernard Shaw
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. — John Dryden
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden
I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice… — Ian Doescher
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. — Gore Vidal
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser… — Ben Jonson
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like… — William Allingham
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. — Alfred North Whitehead
This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season… — Donal Logue
I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but… — Michael Stahl-David
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've… — Stephen Fry
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. — Robert Graves
What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want… — Joan Collins
I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. — Steve Coogan
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. — James Cromwell
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl… — Alan Cumming
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out… — Alan Cumming
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and… — Roger Ebert
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could… — Umberto Eco
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and… — James Fenton

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