Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as… — Reinaldo Arenas
It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that… — Faraaz Kazi
But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth… — Kurt Vonnegut
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows'… — Rachel McAdams
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. — Judi Dench
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't… — Paul Scofield
Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines. — Michelle Dockery
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. — Christina Ricci
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting… — Jamie Campbell Bower
If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in… — Timothy Dalton
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built. — William J. Clinton
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. — Anna Torv
I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored… — Kerry Washington
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of… — C.S. Lewis
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how… — Hamish Linklater
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of… — David Foster
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic… — Lytton Strachey
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall.… — Joseph Fiennes
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise… — George Bernard Shaw
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I… — Julie Taymor
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in… — Stephen Greenblatt
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language… — Winston Churchill
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in… — Elizabeth von Arnim

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