Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox
The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. — Alex Cox
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected… — Alex Cox
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has… — George Saunders
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood… — W. S. Gilbert
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare… — Stephen Greenblatt
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in… — Robin G. Collingwood
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your… — Wilferd Peterson
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. — Uta Hagen
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. — James Broughton
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works… — Ian Hart
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again. — Ken Kesey
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! — Robert Browning
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something… — Andrew Denton
People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve… — Bob Dylan
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of… — Peter Brook
Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare. — Eric Schmidt
Shakespeare must be a black girl. — Maya Angelou
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. — Laurence Olivier
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play — Tupac Shakur
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each… — Oscar Wilde
I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of… — Harold Bloom

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