They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.
You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye o...
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and w...
We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of c...
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,And for thy maintenance; commits his bodyTo painful labor, both by sea and land;To watch the night in sto...
Methinks the lady doth protest too much, said Iago.Methinks the lady protests just the right amount, said Emilia. Methinks the lady is just getting fucking started protesting.
It is said that [Shakespeare's] time was easier than ours, but I doubt it—no time can be easy if one is living through it.
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being bet...
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
O Luke, I would not lose thee as I lostDarth Vader. His betrayal made my lifeA bleak and tragic thing. Thy loss untoThe dark would make my death a hellish, coldEternity.