Shakespeare Quotes

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil, ' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

O! How much more doth beauty beauteous seem

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

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

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

I’ve attempted to bring together as many perspectives as possible, not in order to be exhaustive–but to celebrate the many different approaches to appreciating Shakespeare that there are possible

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth, ’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…

Against an oath

Wisely and slow

How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?

The evil that men do lives after them

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

People want what was best about the world.

Frailty, thy name is human!

To see the positive or not to see the positive, this is the question.

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare

To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

The commonwealth is sick of their own choice

You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

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?

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Give sorrow words

My grief lies all within

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

I want to take a trip to Shakespeare's brain and vacation there with his thoughts may be I also start writing about twisted love and betrayals.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear

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

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

I had passed

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?