Quotes About Shakespeare

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.