Shakespeare Quotes

. . . 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.

How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth

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

We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping

Heavy is the head that wears the crownWilliam Shakespeare

Let not thy sorrow die, though i am dead.

William Shakespeare...was baptized on April 26, 1564. When he was born is disputed, but anyone who argues that it was after this date is just being difficult.

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance, " said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

They are but beggars that can count their worth

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry.

To be or not to be what exactly?

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

Werewolves and silver bullets!” Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. “Lord, what fools these mortals be!

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

Nay, Nay! Try thou not.But do thou or do thou not, For there is no "try.

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

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.

The wren goes to't

to pee or not to pee that is the question

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

I know Verona as I do my own body.

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

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.

Real love is booty grabbin

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".

It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods

I have ridden out all the storms, ” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…

Shakespeare, ” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.

Hark, ” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?”Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing

By the power of the Tri-Force, I command you to "-------

...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.

Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest