457 Quotes About Shakespeare

Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece, where virtue is so low-spirited, its exclamation so lachrymose and its justification the nasty realpolitik of Roman Republicanism. The sun has not dried the dew on the grass in Venus, but the ill-lit world of Livy's Rome darkens Lucrece. The first poem lives out of doors; the second is in a permanent chiaroscuro.

Well said, old mole!

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.

Wir können uns von Shakespeare unterscheiden, durch Fehler.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.

Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!

- Julietă- Hău- Unde ești?- Nu îți spun- Dezdemona- Desigur- Vreau să te întreb ceva foarte important- Spune- Păi...- Atunci scrie- Cât e ceasul?

One thing remains certain: as long as anxieties about racial, national, sexual, and religious difference continue to haunt the way we imagine ourselves and respond to others, Shakespeare's words will remain 'not of an age, but for all time.