Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more… — Diane Setterfield
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. — Haruki Murakami
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? — Danielle Steel
Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do… — Haruki Murakami
The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and… — Stephen Fry
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to… — Bart D. Ehrman
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of… — Bertrand Russell
But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus,… — John Green
There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory… — Justina Chen
Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right. — L. Frank Baum
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare… — Erica Jong
And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but… — Michael Scott
Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded… — Connie Willis
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We… — Bill Bryson
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about… — A A Milne
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 — William Shakespeare
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over. — P.G. Wodehouse
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like… — Vincent Van Gogh
...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I… — Kevin Hearne
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. — John Irving
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us… — Harold Bloom
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized,… — John Green
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we… — Gayle Forman

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