Quotes About Shakespeare

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love.

Ink to paper is thoughtful Ink to flesh, hard-core. If Shakespeare were a tattooist We'd appreciate body art more.

Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.

every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

We called Dante the melodious Priest of Middle-Age Catholicism. May we not call Shakespeare the still more melodious Priest of a true Catholicism, the 'Universal Church' of the Future and of all times? No narrow superstition, harsh asceticism, intolerance, fanatical fierceness or perversion: a Revelation, so far as it goes, that such a thousandfold hidden beauty and divineness dwells in all Nature; which let all men worship as they can!

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. —William Shakespeare

Algunas de las plantas tienen nombres de esquela necrológica: luisa, rosa, ruda, melisa. Algunas, como la reina de los prados y la vellorita, la caléndula o la eufrasia, parecen nombres de hadas de Shakespeare. La lengua cerval con su olor a vainilla dulce. El olmo escocés, otro astringente natural.