Shakespeare Wrote Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?…
— Edward Abbey
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Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
— Sister Souljah
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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.
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Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
— William J. Clinton
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Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as…
— Leonard Maltin
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
— Ray Stevenson
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People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
— Dominick Dunne
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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
— Simon Callow
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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart…
— David Ogilvy
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our…
— Dennis Lehane
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare…
— Erica Jong
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Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
— Virginia Woolf
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When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for…
— Eamonn Walker
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
— Stephen Sondheim
Who Wrote These Shakespeare Wrote Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Shakespeare Wrote Quotes as follows: