Quotes About Shakespeare

Jean Louise grinned. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions.

Tat?l ei spunea c? e nevoie de cel puÈ›in 5 ani s? ajungi s? cunoÈ™ti dreptul dup? ce ai terminat facultatea: f?ceai economie doi ani, înv??ai regulile pentru elaborarea pledoariilor în Alabama înc? doi, reciteai Biblia È™i pe Shakespeare în cel de-al cincilea. Dup? care erai preg?tit s? faci fa?? în orice condiÈ›ii.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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 think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

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.

The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania.

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.