Quotes About Shakespeare

Addams's] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter Cordelia in Shakespeare's play: an old set of values, predicated on individualism and paternalism, had run up against a new set of values, predicated on mutuality and self-determination.

Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.

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

Mi értelme Shakespeare-nek? Tudom, hogy zseni meg minden, de állandóan csak károg. - De csitt, mi fény nyilall az ablakon? A rohadt Hold, az isten szerelmére. Szedd össze magad, Vili!

english So much to say, so little time. Miss Wilson kept interrupting our chat with her so-called love of Shakespeare. For goodness' sake. Hers is not the love that dares not speak its name, hers is the love that bangs on and on about Billy. It's all "What ho, my lord" and "Oh look, here comes MacBeth talking total bollocks.

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

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seatin this distracted globe. Remember thee?

No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

I have got into one of my moping moods tonight,' said my father, after a silence; then quoting Shakespeare, whom, by way of keeping up our English, he used to read aloud, he said: 'In truth I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I got it – came by it . . . I forget the rest.

Why didn't vandals ever quote Shakespeare? I'd love to see graffiti in iambic pentameter.

Shakespeare invented the Knock Knock joke, with the first one appearing in his play Macbeth. Here it is (and prepare yourself, it's a cracker)... 'Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' th' name of Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty. Come in time, have napkins enough about you, here you'll sweat for 't.

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.