Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument… — John Sununu
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. — Emily Watson
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. — Arthur Smith
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move. — Arthur Smith
When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like… — Alicia Silverstone
I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot… — Vinny Guadagnino
I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from doing musicals... and… — Stephen Moyer
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree. — Christian Cooke
I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot. — Arthur Phillips
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture… — Richard Eyre
If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even… — Mark Helprin
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a… — Xavier Samuel
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of… — Roger Rosenblatt
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins
All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character… — Mahatma Gandhi
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. — Victor Hugo
He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was… — John Dryden
Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa? — Shirley Jackson
You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses. — Sally Jessy Raphael
I'll moider da bum - when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare — Tony Galento
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience… — Mark Akenside
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or… — Ben Jonson
Weve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that… — Robert Wilensky
Shakespeare said all the worlds a stage if it is then I suggest you to perform better than anyone else. — Vikrant Parsai
Sometimes, love hurts. The abrasions of love have inspired many a great writer. From Shakespeare to Jane Austen, writers have at some time or the… — Zoheb

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