457 Quotes About Shakespeare

Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.

A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.

It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.

Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.

That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet

Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns.

I have ridden out all the storms,” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…

Shakespeare shook his head and sunk his chin into his ruff, making him look more owl-like than ever. “I have written about other worlds often enough. I have said what I can say. There are many kinds of reality. This is but one kind.

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.