shakespear Quotes and Quotations
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shakespear Quotes and Quotations
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. James M. Barrie | top
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. Brendan Behan | top
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side. Andrew Coyle Bradley | top
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We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. Andrew Coyle Bradley | top
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You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. John Bradshaw | top
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. Kenneth Branagh | top
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Jackson Browne | top
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I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. Allan Carr | top
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. Montgomery Clift | top
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. Alex Cox | top
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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? Brendan Fraser | top
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Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. Stephen Greenblatt | top
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When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. Thom Gunn | top
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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. Edward Hall | top
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I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. Christopher Isherwood | top
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I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. Louise Jameson | top
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. Ted Lange | top
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You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. Ajay Naidu | top
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. Ben Okri | top
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. Chaim Potok | top
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. Ted Rall | top
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My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. Dick Schaap | top
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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. Julie Taymor | top
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On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. Scott Turow | top
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles | top
