Quotes About Shakespeare
Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.
~ Melvyn Bragg
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Some day I should like to run a competition to find out the unfunniest clown in Shkespeare. There's a lot of choice from that dreadful lancelot Gobbo to the superlatively unfunny Feste. Nobody can make me believe that even the groundlings laughed at them, unless, as I suspect, the dire lines were enlivened by rude gestures,
~ Unknown
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He's never fired a gun in his life," Palamedes said. "He abhors weapons." As Palamedes spoke,the group could see Shakespeare put the tonbogiri to his shoulder,then jerk three times. Two of the attacking vimanas spun out of control,both of them crashing into two more. The flour flaming craft spiraled into the sea. "But then he's always been full of surprises," Palamedes added.
~ Michael Scott
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And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.
~ Michael Scott
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If you were extremely unlucky, the forest spiders would get to you first and lay their eggs in you." "Why is that considered extremely unlucky?" "You'd still be alive when the eggs hatched." "That is probably the most disgusting thing I've ever heard," Shakespeare muttered. He pulled out a scrap of paper and a pencil. "I've got to make a note of that.
~ Michael Scott
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Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!
~ Michael Scott
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
~ Michael Tippett
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The daughter will take down the father," said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood.
~ Michael Wolff
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Tonally, the jagged syntax of 'Inch-thick', the Ovidian lyricism of 'O Proserpina' and Autolycus's bawdy swagger show Shakespeare at his widest-ranging. This is total mastery. Nobody had taken the English language further, and nobody has done so since.
~ Unknown
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I am fooling around not doing anything, which probably means that this is a creative period, although of course you don't know until afterward. I think that it is very important to be idle. I mean, they always say that Shakespeare was idle between plays. I am not comparing myself to Shakespeare, but people who keep themselves busy all of the time are generally not creative. So I am not ashamed of being idle.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
~ Unknown
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fault. Everyone knows it's bad luck to say the name of Shakespeare's Scottish Play. At least for
~ Unknown
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What do angels look like? I saw one today wering gaudy jewelry, spoke with a thick Spanish accent, quoted 'Chakespeare.' She said, 'All the world's a stage and sometimes you just gotta roll with los punches.
~ Monique Duval
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Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him'?" I whisper-quote like I'm dreaming. Then I shake my head. "I was in Macbeth
~ Unknown
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It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.
~ Unknown
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Hamlet got a gun now.
~ Nick Cave
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The gods and heroes of the old myths fade away and give place to people like ourselves. In Shakespeare we can still have heroes who can see ghosts and talk in magnificent poetry, but by the time we get to Beckett's Waiting for Godot they're speaking prose and have turned into ghosts themselves.
~ Northrop Frye
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The moral of all this is that with Shakespeare the actable and the theatrical are always what comes first.
~ Northrop Frye
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
~ Orson Welles
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I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
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I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
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Life's but a walking shadow,' Mercy, 'a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.' " He countered my Dylan Thomas with Shakespeare
~ Patricia Briggs
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Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us," Victoria, the smart one, said. "The good is oft interred with their bones.
~ Paul Levine
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What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')
~ Paul Murray Kendall
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