457 Quotes About Shakespeare

  • Author Jo Nesbø
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    Women understand hearts and how to speak to them. Because the heart is the woman in us. Even if the brain is bigger, talks more and believes that the husband rules the house, it’s the heart that silently makes the decisions.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    We called Dante the melodious Priest of Middle-Age Catholicism. May we not call Shakespeare the still more melodious Priest of a true Catholicism, the ‘Universal Church’ of the Future and of all times? No narrow superstition, harsh asceticism, intolerance, fanatical fierceness or perversion: a Revelation, so far as it goes, that such a thousandfold hidden beauty and divineness dwells in all Nature; which let all men worship as they can!

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  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    There are more things in heaven and earth,'" said Gwyn, "'than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'"Kit snorted. DIana looked flabbergasted. "Are you quoting Shakespeare?" she said. "I would have thought at least it would have been A Midsummer Night's Dream.""Faeries can't stand A Midsummer Night's Dream," muttered Kieran. "Gets everything wrong.

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  • Author Harold Bloom
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    Shakespeare will not allow Falstaff to die upon stage. We see and hear the deaths of Hamlet, Cleopatra, Antony, Othello, and Lear. Iago is led away to die silently under torture. Macbeth dies offstage but he goes down fighting. Falstaff dies singing the Twenty-third Psalm, smiling upon his fingertips, playing with flowers, and crying aloud to God three or four times. That sounds more like pain than prayer. We do not want Sir John Falstaff to die. And of course he does not. He is life itself.

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  • Author Stewart Stafford
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    I once witnessed a rather unfortunate production of Shakespeare's Hamlet - the lead actor didn't know his existential angst from his iambic pentameter and, alas, poor Yorick was a bemused bystander.

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