Quotes about Shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' Votes: 5

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. Votes: 5

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Votes: 4

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. Votes: 4

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Votes: 4

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. Votes: 4

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening. Votes: 4

Shakespeare, I come ! Votes: 3

Shakespeare is universal. Votes: 3

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle. Votes: 3

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child! Votes: 3

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian. Votes: 3

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. Votes: 3

Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built. Votes: 3

Shakespeare feels very natural to me. Votes: 3

I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure. Votes: 3

My parents are big Shakespeare fans. Votes: 3

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I have grown up loving Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare must be a black girl. Votes: 3

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. Votes: 3

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare? Votes: 3

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. Votes: 3

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. Votes: 3

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! Votes: 3

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. Votes: 3

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. Votes: 3

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love... Votes: 3

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all Votes: 3

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor. Votes: 3

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university. Votes: 3

Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film. Votes: 3

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right. Votes: 3

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Votes: 3

Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation. Votes: 3

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Votes: 3

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's. Votes: 3

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. Votes: 3

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political. Votes: 3

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. Votes: 3

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. Votes: 3

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently. Votes: 3

What is that, Shakespeare?" "Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman." Votes: 3

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare Votes: 3

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare? Votes: 3

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not. Votes: 3

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey. Votes: 3

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax! Votes: 3

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare. Votes: 3

You can't act Shakespeare until you can speak him. Votes: 3

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose. Votes: 3

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York. Votes: 3

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines. Votes: 3

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault. Votes: 3

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows. Votes: 3

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. Votes: 3

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years. Votes: 3

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. Votes: 3

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. Votes: 3

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages. Votes: 3

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare. Votes: 3

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot. Votes: 3

Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets. Votes: 3

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles. Votes: 3

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. Votes: 3

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. Votes: 3

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world. Votes: 3

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man. Votes: 3

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then. Votes: 3

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. Votes: 3

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Votes: 3

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. Votes: 3

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare Votes: 3

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter. Votes: 3

Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes? Votes: 3

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. Votes: 3

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore. Votes: 3

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. Votes: 3

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor. Votes: 3

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare. Votes: 3

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. Votes: 3

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. Votes: 3

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read. Votes: 3

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material. Votes: 3

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. Votes: 3

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. Votes: 3

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. Votes: 3

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. Votes: 3

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings Votes: 3

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. Votes: 3

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. Votes: 3

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. Votes: 3

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest. Votes: 3

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. Votes: 3

As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did. Votes: 3

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. Votes: 3

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. Votes: 3

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. Votes: 3

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. Votes: 3

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London. Votes: 3

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. Votes: 3

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. Votes: 3

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. Votes: 3

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times. Votes: 3

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you? Votes: 3

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! Votes: 3

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on. Votes: 3

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. Votes: 3

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. Votes: 3

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. Votes: 3

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature. Votes: 3

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? Votes: 3

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me. Votes: 3

As Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds! Votes: 3

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ? Votes: 3

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. Votes: 3

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares. Votes: 3

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so Votes: 3

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so. Votes: 3

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from. Votes: 3

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? Votes: 3

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them. Votes: 3

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. Votes: 3

The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information! Votes: 3

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. Votes: 3

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera Votes: 3

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made. Votes: 3

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more? Votes: 3

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling. Votes: 3

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. Votes: 3

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. Votes: 3

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Votes: 3

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. Votes: 3

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? Votes: 3

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. Votes: 3

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites. Votes: 3

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. Votes: 3

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines. Votes: 3

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me. Votes: 3

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel. Votes: 3

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. Votes: 3

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? Votes: 3

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. Votes: 3

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life. Votes: 3

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. Votes: 3

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. Votes: 3

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. Votes: 3

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers." Votes: 3

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition, Votes: 3

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. Votes: 3

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Votes: 3

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. Votes: 3

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. Votes: 3

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. Votes: 3

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. Votes: 3

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king. Votes: 3

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that. Votes: 3

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. Votes: 3

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. Votes: 3

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. Votes: 3

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. Votes: 3

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. Votes: 3

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring. Votes: 3

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there. Votes: 3

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. Votes: 3

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. Votes: 3

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. Votes: 3

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. Votes: 3

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. Votes: 3

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Critchley and Webster's fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. Votes: 3

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. Votes: 3

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. Votes: 3

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. Votes: 3

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... Votes: 3

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. Votes: 3

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare. Votes: 3

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. Votes: 3

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak. Votes: 3

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. Votes: 3

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. Votes: 3

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself. Votes: 3

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. Votes: 3

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. Votes: 3

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. Votes: 3

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. Votes: 3

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. Votes: 3

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. Votes: 3

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines. Votes: 3

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. Votes: 3

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. Votes: 3

I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words. Votes: 3

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie. Votes: 3

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' Votes: 3

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. Votes: 3

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction. Votes: 3

I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!' Votes: 3

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. Votes: 3

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. Votes: 3

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. Votes: 3

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production. Votes: 3

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. Votes: 3

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. Votes: 3

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. Votes: 3

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. Votes: 3

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. Votes: 3

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. Votes: 3

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. Votes: 3

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. Votes: 3

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest. Votes: 3

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.' Votes: 3

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson. Votes: 3

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love. Votes: 3

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. Votes: 3

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave. Votes: 3

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! Votes: 3

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow. Votes: 3

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. Votes: 3

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! Votes: 3

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? Votes: 3

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once? Votes: 3

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. Votes: 3

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Votes: 3

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. Votes: 3

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. Votes: 3

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books. Votes: 3

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he! Votes: 3

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically. Votes: 3

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. Votes: 3

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language. Votes: 3

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet! Votes: 3

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words. Votes: 3

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. Votes: 3

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. Votes: 3

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature." Votes: 3

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. Votes: 3

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really. Votes: 3

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. Votes: 3

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another. Votes: 3

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. Votes: 3

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? Votes: 3

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine. Votes: 3

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. Votes: 3

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. Votes: 3

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. Votes: 3

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. Votes: 3

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park. Votes: 3

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible. Votes: 3

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats Votes: 3

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. Votes: 3

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare. Votes: 3

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. Votes: 3

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. Votes: 3

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Votes: 3

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? Votes: 3

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew. Votes: 3

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined. Votes: 3

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role! Votes: 3

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. Votes: 3

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. Votes: 3

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} Votes: 3

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons. Votes: 3

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth. Votes: 3

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Votes: 3

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal. Votes: 3

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. Votes: 3

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. Votes: 3

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. Votes: 3

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes! Votes: 3

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. Votes: 3

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. Votes: 3

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. Votes: 3

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. Votes: 3

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. Votes: 3

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. Votes: 3

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Votes: 3

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? Votes: 3

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare. Votes: 3

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things. Votes: 3

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. Votes: 3

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards. Votes: 3

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. Votes: 3

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. Votes: 3

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. Votes: 3

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. Votes: 3

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! Votes: 3

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. Votes: 3

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. Votes: 3

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor. Votes: 3

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic. Votes: 3

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. Votes: 3

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection. Votes: 3

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. Votes: 3

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. Votes: 3

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. Votes: 3

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) Votes: 3

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. Votes: 3

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche. Votes: 3

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. Votes: 3

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad. Votes: 3

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square." Votes: 3

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on. Votes: 3

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. Votes: 3

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. Votes: 3

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. Votes: 3

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. Votes: 3

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. Votes: 3

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men. Votes: 3

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. Votes: 3

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses. Votes: 3

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. Votes: 3

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play Votes: 3

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority. Votes: 3

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. Votes: 3

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic. Votes: 3

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West. Votes: 3

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. Votes: 3

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over. Votes: 3

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. Votes: 3

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. Votes: 3

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet? Votes: 3

Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob. Votes: 3

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere. Votes: 3

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. Votes: 3

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. Votes: 3

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there. Votes: 3

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding). Votes: 3

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. Votes: 3

Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. Votes: 3

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. Votes: 3

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. Votes: 3

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. Votes: 3

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree. Votes: 3

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. Votes: 3

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. Votes: 3

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence. Votes: 3

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything. Votes: 3

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work. Votes: 3

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. Votes: 3

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. Votes: 3

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. Votes: 3

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny. Votes: 3

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning. Votes: 3

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom. Votes: 3

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. Votes: 3

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. Votes: 3

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame. Votes: 3

I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict. Votes: 3

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere. Votes: 3

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. Votes: 3

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton. Votes: 3

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part. Votes: 3

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. Votes: 3

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. Votes: 3

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. Votes: 3

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way. Votes: 3

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Votes: 3

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. Votes: 3

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life. Votes: 3

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. Votes: 3

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. Votes: 3

She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare. Votes: 3

Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. Votes: 3

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be. Votes: 3

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. Votes: 3

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. Votes: 3

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. Votes: 3

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! Votes: 3

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. Votes: 3

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere. Votes: 3

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. Votes: 3

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke. Votes: 3

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Votes: 3

'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' Votes: 3

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man." Votes: 3

You lying liar," Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious. Votes: 3

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born. Votes: 3

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. Votes: 3

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Votes: 3

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us. Votes: 3

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner. Votes: 3

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think. Votes: 3

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality. Votes: 3

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. Votes: 3

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. Votes: 3

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin. Votes: 3

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful. Votes: 3

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. Votes: 3

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. Votes: 3

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. Votes: 3

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it. Votes: 3

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me. Votes: 3

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people. Votes: 3

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. Votes: 3

Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it. Votes: 3

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time. Votes: 3

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage. Votes: 3

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater. Votes: 3

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. Votes: 3

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne? Votes: 3

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. Votes: 3

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park. Votes: 3

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. Votes: 3

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death. Votes: 3

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. Votes: 3

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you "” what "” was there not sad stuff? Votes: 3

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. Votes: 3

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. Votes: 3

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent. Votes: 3

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. Votes: 3

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. Votes: 3

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is. Votes: 3

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. Votes: 3

But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. Votes: 3

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence. Votes: 3

But what if Shakespeare"• and Hamlet"• were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be? Votes: 3

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare. Votes: 3

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair. Votes: 3

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare. Votes: 3

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! Votes: 3

The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.' Votes: 3

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better. Votes: 3

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age. Votes: 3

Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait. Votes: 3

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's. Votes: 3

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to. Votes: 3

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. Votes: 3

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. Votes: 3

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language. Votes: 3

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played. Votes: 3

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. Votes: 3

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. Votes: 3

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare Votes: 3

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 Votes: 3

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet Votes: 3

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What? Votes: 2