Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. — Kevin Kline
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. — Ralph Fiennes
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… — Ben Okri
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...… — Ken Kesey
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight,… — William Wordsworth
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all… — William Faulkner
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests… — Matthew Lillard
Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore… — John Aubrey
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the… — Gene Tunney
I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare. — Leo Tolstoy
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter. — Ai Weiwei
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante,… — William Strunk, Jr.
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble,… — James V. Schall
Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a… — Lauren Beukes
But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk… — Mark Forsyth
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. — Trevor Nunn
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told… — Marchette Chute
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. — Jeanette Winterson
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the… — Gustav Stresemann
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a… — Kenneth Patchen
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. — Andrew Coyle Bradley
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions,… — Michael Foley

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