Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would… — Bill Bryson
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the… — Frank McCourt
Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd… — Rachel Vincent
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative… — John Keats
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is… — Mark Twain
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. — Victor Hugo
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… — Virginia Woolf
Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from. — Simon R. Green
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. — George Orwell
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is… — C.S. Lewis
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any… — Mordecai Richler
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein
There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a… — Margaret Drabble
Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes! — Louise Rennison
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet — William Shakespeare
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. — D. H. Lawrence
I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put… — Tasha Tudor
The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare… — Oscar Wilde
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible… — William Shakespeare
Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I… — Roger Ebert
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. — P.G. Wodehouse

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