Bible Or Shakespeare Quotes

#1. I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Ellen Raskin

#2. There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

Heinrich Heine

#3. Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

Margaret Cho

#5. Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere - not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and Old Bill Sumner. Pap-fed flabs!

Sinclair Lewis

#6. You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

Javier Bardem

#7. If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

#8. The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

Patti Smith

#9. Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Jack Johnson

#10. All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

#12. Jean Louise grinned. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions.

Harper Lee

#13. Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.

Abby Slovin

#14. English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

Winston Churchill

#15. it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions. "What

Harper Lee

#16. A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

#17. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth.

Harper Lee

#18. Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban

#19. People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

Kevin Systrom

#20. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have not begun to read, you have not learned how to read.

John Macy

#21. My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

Lupita Nyong'o

#22. Love covers a multitude of sins.

John Connolly

#23. People say that the Bible is a boring book ... but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#24. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

#25. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

Margaret Chase Smith

#26. Shakespeare said it this way: Even the devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

Dawn Flemington

#27. Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Ron Suskind

#28. I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

Steve Coogan

#29. I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

Hugh Jackman

#30. I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#31. I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.

Charlotte McKinney

#32. Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare ... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

Victor Hugo

#33. Reading old Gray? That's right. Physician's library just three books: 'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare. Study. You may become great doctor.

Sinclair Lewis

#34. The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.

Paul Theroux

#35. The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in them long before they leave.

Gerard Donovan

#36. It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

Lafcadio Hearn

#37. England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Victor Hugo

#38. If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

Donald Hall

#39. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Cato The Elder