457 Quotes About Shakespeare

The wren goes to't

I know Verona as I do my own body.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.

We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is'tto leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".