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Shakespeare Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous…
- Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt…
- A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
More Shakespeare Quotes
- I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie
- Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan
- I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and… — Orlando Bloom
- One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of… — Kenneth Branagh
- If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers
- The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! — Robert Browning
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets… — James Buchan
- In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
- I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage
- As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.… — Leonard Cohen
- I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for… — Karen Allen