"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words……" — Terry Pratchett

More Elizabethan Quotes

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• The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.. — James M. Barrie
• Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the… — Mark Rylance
• But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have… — Geoffrey Rush
• The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them… — Timothy West
• We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out… — Jeanette Winterson
• How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and… — Rosemary Verey
• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is… — James Fenton
• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct… — H P Lovecraft
• Lord, what fools these mortals be! — William Shakespeare
• Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact… — Virginia Woolf
• In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion… — Diane Paulus
• What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy,… — George Pierce Baker

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