Quotes about Shakespeare

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or b — William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds o — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Sweets to the sweet. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so — Neil Gaiman
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. — William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or m — Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday c — Dave Barry
What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. — Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a t — P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Morning
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny, Sign of the Unicorn
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
You can't just skip the boring parts.""Of course I can skip the boring parts.""How do you know they're boring if you don — Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars
To be, or not to be: what a question! — E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World: Volume I
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth — Herbert Spencer, First Principles
Against an oath — the truth thou art unsure.
The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacock — W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica