William Shakespeare

Quotes

• “Such evil is often in Shakespeare felt as inhuman and bestial; it is-or should be-un-English; and the central symbolism ...”
• “The true description of us is the complex, ever-changing pattern of interactions of billions of them [neurons]... The ab...”
• “I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the sa...”
• “Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk to...”
• “For some reason, I really enjoyed the histories and tragedies of Shakespeare not the comedies. Today, I marvel at the fa...”
• “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And...”
• “Dolt & ass that I am I have lived more than 29 years, & until a few days ago, never made close acquaintance with the div...”
• “Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition. Almost al...”
• “The shape of the Globe gives words power, but you're the wordsmith! The one true genius; the only one clever enough to d...”
• “I spoke of women teaching women's literature courses who said that they could not teach Black women's poetry because it ...”
• “History adds that before or after dying he found himself in the presence of God and told Him: "I who have been so many m...”
• “Shakespeare's drama, with its fanfares and ceremonial, abounds in kingly ritual; and his people speak, move, act royally...”
• “Ultimately, Anthony Burgess's emphasis on the multiplicity of meanings latent in the text of Shakespeare's life foregrou...”
• “Paul Franssen, on Kipling, in his 1934 short story, as the probable originator of the idea that Shakespeare had worked o...”
• “Yet it must be at last confessed, that as we owe every thing to him [Shakespeare], he owes something to us; that, if muc...”
• “Derived from A Midsummer Night's Dream on p. 269, Aphorisms from Shakespeare (1812), Capel Lofft, Longman, Hurst, Rees, ...”
• “On this planet the reputation of Shakespeare is secure. When life is discovered elsewhere in the universe and some inter...”
• “O God! methinks, it were a happy life,To be no better than a homely swain;To sit upon a hill, as I do now,To carve out d...”
• “This figure that thou here seest put,It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,Wherein the graver had a strifeWith Nature, to ou...”
• “I sent for some dinner and there dined, Mrs. Margaret Pen being by, to whom I had spoke to go along with us to a play th...”
• “Shakespeare's name, you may depend upon it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. He had no invention as to stories...”
• “What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bonesThe labors of an age in piled stones?Or that his hallowed reliques should...”
• “My object has been to dramatise, like the Greeks (a modest phrase), striking passages of history, as they did of history...”
• “Do you know how they are going to decide the Shakespeare-Bacon dispute? They are going to dig up Shakespeare and dig up ...”
• “Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our fore...”
• “Alexander Pope, Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1725). Compare Addison on Homer: "there is scarce a speech or actio...”
• “At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare posses...”
• “For there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes ...”
• “Paul Franssen, on the use Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess in "Will and Testament" in ' (1984) in "The Bard, the Bible and...”
• “Shakespeare's plays, no matter of what country he may be writing, are redolent of our own soil and of our own country pe...”
• “Paul Franssen, on Burgess's use of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets in ', in "The Bard, the Bible and the Desert...”
• “When great poets sing,Into the night new constellations spring,With music in the air that dulls the craftOf rhetoric. So...”
• “England's genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was...”
• “EDMUND (sits down opposite his father - contemptuously). Yes, facts don't mean a thing, do they? What you want to believ...”
• “Of all English literature I was exposed to, Shakespeare's tragedies moved most. I could recite soliloquies by Macbeth, H...”
• “If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespear...”
• “This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play ...”
• “Neither a borrower nor a lender be;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.T...”
• “This vision comes to me when I unfoldThe volume of the Poet paramount,Whom all the muses loved, not one alone;-Into his ...”
• “But my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush t...”
• “Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and...”
• “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish ...”
• “Were Shakespeare around to write a play about our times, perhaps his opening line to the Plutocracy would be "Get thee t...”
• “Soul of the Age!The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!My Shakespeare...Thou art a monument, without a tomb,And ...”
• “I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he...”
• “I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) ...”
• “Ben Jonson, on the Portrait of Shakespeare, from Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623), "To...”
• “I'm always ill after Shakespeare,' said Mrs Wititterly. 'I scarcely exist the next day; I find the reaction so very grea...”
• “Vladimir Nabokov, quoted in interview with Alfred Appel, Jr. (September 1966), printed in Wisconsin Studies in Contempor...”
• “John Milton, An Epitaph. Similar phrases in the entire epitaph are found in the epitaph on Sir Thomas Stanley, supposed ...”