Shakespeare Quotes

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good. (Robert Graves)

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 study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert Humphrey

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

M. H. Abrams

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity of Spencer, remoteness of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. (William Hazlitt)

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Kanye West

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

George Bernard Shaw

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.'

Ben Jonson

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

Frank McCourt

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

'With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart' once more Did Shakespeare If so, the less Shakespeare he.

Robert Browning

We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

William Wordsworth

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world.

William Wordsworth

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

William Wordsworth

Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Aldous Huxley

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Stephen Greenblatt

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

Stephen Greenblatt

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Stephen Greenblatt

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