Quotes About Human Nature By Shakespeare

#1. My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare

#2. There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Perhaps it is a child's magical thinking. But you cannot know a place until you know the stories it tells about itself.

Sean Wallace

#4. My soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

William Shakespeare

#6. Cinder," Iko said after a few silent minutes of explorations. "I'm enormous.

Marissa Meyer

#7. Why couldn't I get a stepbrother like the ones from Fallen Crest High?

Jenny Siegel

#8. What a piece of work is man!

William Shakespeare

#9. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

William Shakespeare

#10. Reading him was like reading runes - apparently you had to know the language.

Rachel Lee

#11. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:

William Shakespeare

#12. The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.

William Holman Hunt

#13. Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,
endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#14. I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

Sam Riley

#15. That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much about human nature. And write about it in a way that still rings true, all these years later.' ". . . " 'That's Shakespeare's secret. . .

Elise Broach

#16. Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake.

David W. Earle

#17. No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Lajos Egri

#18. Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Edward Hall

#19. Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

Kelli O'Hara