Quotes About Shakespeare

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

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

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".

Hark, " he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?"Kami yelled up at him, "It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

And, as Mr. Shakespeare said, 'thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks'!

Thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks!' Ã¢â'¬Â Hope exclaimed, quoting Shakespeare.

No, sir.' She withdrew her hand. 'Quoting Shakespeare will get you nowhere.

In their hands The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined became a story about the drug of self-delusion and the joy of truth.

lo que Shakespeare llamó 'una cama afligida', o 'apesadumbrada', o 'desconsolada': 'a woeful bed

The sense of the wonder of human life, its beauty and terror and pain, and the power in men to do and to hear, is in Æschylus and in Shakespeare as in no other writer. Thy

If Conservatism may, in a non-party sense, claim Shakespeare as an authority in its favor, in Milton, on the other hand, I suppose Liberalism again in a non-party sense would recognize a support.

In Shakespeare, as we might have expected, the masculine note and the feminine note are heard in perfect harmony.

Byron is not Shakespeare; for he lags considerably behind Shakespeare in Invention, Action, and Character, by dint of which, and in conjunction with which, the highest faculties of the poet are displayed. But a poet may lag considerably behind Shakespeare, and yet exhibit these in a conspicuous degree.