Top Shakespeare Quotes

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spe...

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample le...

Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingl...

I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

I suppose the fundamental distinction between Shakespeare and myself is one of treatment. We get our effects differently. Take the familiar farcical situation of someone who suddenly discovers that so...

Mother, you have my father much offended.

To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

Elvis is the soul of discretion.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingl...

I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table. Macbeth

My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease;Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,The uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,An...

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is...