Top Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Pour on, I will endure.

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

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim which...

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows

Et tu, Brute?

What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

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

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

Sweets to the sweet.

Frailty, thy name is human!

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare - or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad - who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole,...

I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn’t remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had bee...