457 Quotes About Shakespeare

Real love is booty grabbin

The Unknowable Scribe by Stewart StaffordBehind the looking glass,Lurks the trembling hand of deception,How deep it goes.Scratching worthlessly on the glass,Yet leaving diamond shavings in its wake,To ponder over endlessly.Question not, despise not,Seek no answers hereFor there are none to give.The cygnet is mooncalf,To the mighty swan,Cat's paw to catchpenny.Birther to birthing,A classification of bedding,To redress the baseness of our grindings.© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Do you want to become a second Shakespeare of world literature, the second Darwin of science, and the second Elvis of music? This is nonsense and at the same time impossible because every human being is unique and you can only be yourself! Every person has to create a different path so that the world becomes richer!

The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spelled things however they heard them or however made sense. I mean the name Shakespeare had something like 16 different spellings, and the way he spelled it isn't the way we spell it.- School of Night - pg 44

One reason current discussions of justice are so impoverished is that our heterogeneous society does not have many shared texts. Shakespeare's plays are among the few secular texts that remain common enough and complex enough to sustain these conversation. His answers to our dilemmas may not "bear on all points." Yet they teach us not to underestimate the action of the flower.

My Lord, the tale begins with a ghost... - Prince of Sorrows

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.