Quotes about Shakespeare

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Usually, Shakespeare gives me goose bumps. The guy knows everything. Like some ancient angel quill-ing out blueprints li — Jolene Stockman, The Jelly Bean Crisis
O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock! — William Shakespeare, Othello
Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of litera — James Shapiro
We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by B — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over. — P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the wo — William Shakespeare
Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a — Antony Sher, Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, play — Catharine Arnold, Necropolis: London and Its Dead
More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet. — William Shakespeare
In fact, Shakespeare was right when he said ‘twice a babe once a man’. We are born into the world as helpless, weak infa — George Korankye, Die Laughing: War Humour From WW1 To Present Day
I’m having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, ‘Oy Tony!’ I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see Micha — Antony Sher, Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook
[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; th — Roger Allam, Players of Shakespeare 3: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company
I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than Romeo) as — Roger Allam, Players of Shakespeare 2: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company
It was as Frank said: the Sparrow Sisters Nursery had quite a reputation. Sally told Henry about the Nursery that was no — Ellen Herrick, The Sparrow Sisters
They are near the bottom of the food chain - a meal for fish and birds - while humans eat from the top of the food chain — Amy Stewart
He was not of an age but for all time! — Ben Jonson
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. — Macaulay
You are always naked when you start writing — you are always as if you had never written anything before