A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare said “all the world’s a stage” if it is then I suggest you to perform better than ...
VIKRANT PARSAI A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN ~ Dramatic people create dramatic lives, all the worlds a stage, until you become aware your writing...
NICOLE STRANTZ ~ All the worlds a stage, that is until the conditioning is broken. Then we become the audience enjo...
NICOLE STRANTZ William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEAN O'CASEY This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)"
[Motto of William Shakes...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would ...
JOHN ADAMS I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Che...
TOM HARDY Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER I just wasn't interested in going to New York, my interest wasn't TV or film. It was always the stag...
CINDY GENZANO Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And it occurred to me, standing there in that bleak, cavernous space, that nobody is ever just one t...
A.W. HILL Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Pro...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage and most people suffer from stage fright.
JOHN LEACH Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged charac...
ERIC WALTERS Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shake...
JENNIFER DONNELLY She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
VOLTAIRE We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
ROBIN WILLIAMS We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longe...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS From Tribune's perspective, this is the best of all worlds.
DENNIS FITZSIMONS "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON In the best of all worlds, the shelves would be filled.
HEATHER PARSONS All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on s...
FELICITY KENDAL All the world's a stage we're going through.
LORRIE MOORE It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.
NEIL GAIMAN A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!'
'The red plague rid you!'
'Toads, beetle...
GARY D. SCHMIDT All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, RALPH WALDO EMERSON History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
CLAIRE TOMALIN