(104 quotes found)
“Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?”
Henry Irving
“`Was there ever,' cried he, `such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? Only one mustn't say so!'”
George III
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
William Shakespeare
“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
“If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
“I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.”
Ben Kingsley
“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
