Shakespeare Quotes - page 2

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was. (Dick Bruna)
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. View quote
Uta Hagen
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. View quote
Alex Cox
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. View quote
Dick Schaap
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. View quote
Ian Hart
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built. View quote
Bill Clinton
If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. View quote
Vivien Leigh
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it. (Thomas Malthus)
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight. View quote
John Constable
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. View quote
Gore Vidal
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. View quote
Emil Cioran
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then. View quote
Julia Stiles
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... View quote
John Dryden
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear. View quote
Paul Scofield
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. View quote
Orson Welles
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies. (Kevin Spacey)
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. View quote
Martin Amis
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. View quote
Joyce Brothers