Shakespeare Quotes

Pour on, I will endure.

~ William Shakespeare

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

~ Erin Morgenstern

There’s no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.

~ Kathy Bryson

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?

~ Kathy Bryson

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

~ Kathy Bryson

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

~ Kathy Bryson

Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

~ Kathy Bryson

This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.

~ Kathy Bryson

Turns out there’s a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.

~ Kathy Bryson

You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.

~ Kathy Bryson

Maybe you’re worried that I won’t seduce you?

~ Kathy Bryson

Elvis is the soul of discretion.

~ Kathy Bryson

Elvis is in the kitchen and he’s making eggs Benedict!

~ Kathy Bryson

I’ve worked with freshmen that were easier than this.

~ Kathy Bryson

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy?

~ Kathy Bryson

Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play ‘Julius Caesar’, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play ‘Marcus Brutus’. But then again, it all must have boiled down to saleability and marketing; Julius Caesar being the more famous and thus bankable name. Ironical it was, Aditya smiled. The same Shakespeare had once said-‘What’s in a name...

~ Anurag Shourie

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath, and the picture is admired beyond measure. The photographer finds the same pretty girl, he dresses her up and photographs her, and calls her Juliet, but somehow it is no good – it is still Miss Wilkins, the model. It is too true to be Juliet.George Bernard ShawWilson’s Photographic Magazine, LVI, 1909

~ John Szarkowski

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume

~ William Shakespeare

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

~ William Shakespeare

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

~ William Shakespeare

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

~ William Shakespeare

All's well that ends well.

~ William Shakespeare

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

~ William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

~ William Shakespeare

All causes shall give way: I am in bloodStepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o’er.

~ William Shakespeare

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

~ Rebecca Serle

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

~ Robert Wilensky

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

~ William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.

~ William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

~ William Shakespeare

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —I am determined to prove a villain,And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

~ William Shakespeare

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

~ William Shakespeare

To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

~ Truman G. Madsen

Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't.

~ William Shakespeare

If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

~ Catherine Tate

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!

~ Rick Riordan

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

~ William Shakespeare

Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

~ Amy Harmon

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

~ William Shakespeare