Quotes About Shakespeare

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

The first aim of a British film producer should be to teach Hollywood a lesson. Do not be misled, however, by the examples of Henry V or Pygmalion, which tend to prove that excellent films can be made of great plays without changing the out-of-date words of Shakespeare and the un-film-like dialogues of Shaw by ten 'experts' who really know better.

It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness. – SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!

This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, Why should I? He never reads any of mine.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Before he was seventeen, Flaubert was reading Victor Hugo, Byron, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Montaigne, and early acquired the conviction that there was no such thing as indecency in true literature. For a while, the literature of the schoolmasters seemed to him not to be literature at all.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Shakespeare

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Holinshed again. The one that inspired Shakespeare's famous speech.

I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.

Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof. You know what Shakespeare said: "Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty." ...I plant them in big clumps with a trusty shovel. I make several large holes all around and put quite a few in. That's why it makes such a spectacular look when they bloom.