Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine. — Zach Braff
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — Andrew Wyeth
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not. — Peter Porter
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and… — Patrick Stewart
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. — Howard Nemerov
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.… — William Butler Yeats
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or… — John Milton
The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is… — Wayne Dyer
The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and… — Janet Morris
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding). — Dodie Smith
Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and… — Harvey Weinstein
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. — Mark Rylance
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with… — Joseph Sobran
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! — Derek Jarman
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. — Lloyd Alexander
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. — Jeanette Winterson
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human… — Rex Harrison
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly,… — Helen Keller
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we… — Mary McLeod Bethune
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements.… — Maximilian Schell
What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare? — Al Pacino
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if… — Alec Guinness

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