shakespeare Quotes and Quotations
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shakespeare Quotes and Quotations
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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. Mark Akenside | 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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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. Andrew Coyle Bradley | top
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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. Andrew Coyle Bradley | top
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. James Broughton | top
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning | top
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Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so. Dyan Cannon | top
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I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. Allan Carr | top
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Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. William Collins | top
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It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. Judi Dench | top
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Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts. Samuel G. Engel | 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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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. Neil Patrick Harris | top
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Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor. Harvey Korman | top
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. Charles Lamb | top
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I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off. Jessica Lange | top
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. Irving Layton | top
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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. Vivien Leigh | top
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Marshall McLuhan | top
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? Jonathan Miller | top
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. Basil Rathbone | 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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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Jeanette Winterson | top
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I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. Donald Wolfit | top
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. Andrew Wyeth | top