Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love... — Emilie Autumn
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this… — Emilie Autumn
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another. — Matthew Pearl
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon… — Virginia Woolf
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on… — Ray Bradbury
He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready… — Connie Willis
My only love sprung from my only hate. — William Shakespeare
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad… — Jane Austen
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our… — Dennis Lehane
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew… — Carl Sandburg
...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people… — Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? — Jennifer Donnelly
Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth… — Eugene O'Neill
She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare. — Charlaine Harris
Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing… — Michael Scott
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis… — Vladimir Nabokov
She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one… — Sarah MacLean
T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I… — Sue Monk Kidd
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write,… — Stephen King
I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will… — Mortimer Adler
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — Frank McCourt

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