457 Quotes About Shakespeare

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Kill yourself or not, at Street Fashions!

It is said that [Shakespeare's] time was easier than ours, but I doubt it—no time can be easy if one is living through it.

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

No: Shakespear's household billsCould never be responsible, they say,For all the heartache and the 1000 illsHis work is heir to, poem, sonnet, play . . .Emended readings give the real reason:The times were out of joint, the loves, the season.- The Critics

Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth