457 Quotes About Shakespeare

Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

Is this a dagger I see before me?' he mumbled.'Um. No, my lord. It's my handkerchief, you see. You can sort of tell the difference if you look closely. It doesn't have as many sharp edges.

Shakespeare, the contriver of all, has carefully manoeuvred the speech into a state in which it is, finally, possible to make the words of the climax echo and re-echo against the structure in which they are set.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

-No, I am thy father.