Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you… — Robin Hobb
To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if… — Connie Willis
You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class,… — Ken Robinson
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. — Christopher Isherwood
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? — Stan Lee
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. — Sister Souljah
Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today… — Unknown Author
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful. — Aldous Huxley
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. — Tommy Hilfiger
TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world… — Garrison Keillor
A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times. — Dan Devine
Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end. — Raquel Cepeda
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with… — Al Goldstein
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. — Joe Sabia
I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly. — John Clare
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel. — George Harrison
Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. — Basil Rathbone
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. — Blythe Danner
Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad… — George III
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. — M H Abrams
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all — Edward Bond
Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've… — Vincent Price

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