Shakespeare Quotes

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror...

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...

Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same per...

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespea...

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether t...

Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of ...

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one...

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help b...

You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It...

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over...

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort o...

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy o...

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an ar...

William Shakespeare...was baptized on April 26, 1564. When he was born is disputed, but anyone who a...

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a ...

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.

In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they b...

The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes ...

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by...

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works th...

She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no c...

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all ...

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, th...

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. Th...

About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never...

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, ...

Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a ...

Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...

Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they ...

... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive m...

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pa...

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up drippin...

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter....

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today...

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that liter...

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but t...

After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, ...

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Simil...

But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slande...

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination...

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, ine...

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insig...

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a

But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad...

And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello n...

He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of...

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in...

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives t...

He was not of an age but for all time!

If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; i...

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when...

(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know...

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...

Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one do...

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live i...

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was...

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in ...

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have...

I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very mu...

If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without ...

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.

Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying ...

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the...

Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to ...

Tacitus laughed at the Germanic tribes who tried to stop a torrent with their shields, but it is no ...

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any o...

Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is al...

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

[Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineff...

A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We fee...

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well ...

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally a...

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it sh...

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the...

Shakespeare shook his head and sunk his chin into his ruff, making him look more owl-like than ever....

Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.