Quotes About Shakespeare Sonnets

#1. I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.

Rufus Wainwright

#2. We're all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#3. Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

Lois Lowry

#4. Not even the tallest mountain of raccoon droppings could ever get in the way of my love for you.'
'That might be the most romantic thing you've ever said to me.'
'It's Shakespeare. One of the sonnets.

Gina Damico

#5. You can put anything into words, except your own life

Max Frisch

#6. Why people fall in love has been debated since before Shakespeare's sonnets.

Joe Bruno

#7. The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

Gilbert Highet

#8. Then, were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

William Shakespeare

#9. It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

Kate Winslet

#10. Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.

Firoozeh Dumas

#11. But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

William Shakespeare

#12. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

David Ogilvy

#13. While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Jon Meacham

#14. There is a special department of Hell for students of probability. In this department there are many typewriters and many monkeys. Every time that a monkey walks on a typewriter, it types by chance one of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.

William Shakespeare

#16. Again? Honestly, do you guys think she's hiding in Shakespeare's Sonnets?
- Tina Lewis

R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes

#17. Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children and make a copy of the beauty you own because the world owns it too.

Elizabeth Knox

#18. Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as the finer appreciation of the sonnets of Shakespeare and the paintings of Hokusai;

Nicholas Ostler

#19. Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.
Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

Dan Simmons

#20. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Luanne Rice

#21. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

Peter O'Toole

#22. An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Charles Dickens

#23. Don't just have a good day, make it great!

Jane Soslow

#24. When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Thom Gunn

#25. Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

Zach Braff

#26. O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

Virginia Woolf

#27. No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.

Virginia Woolf

#28. I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

Iman

#29. Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow.

William Shakespeare

#30. For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.
How can I then be elder than thou art?

William Shakespeare

#31. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

C.S. Lewis

#32. The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Cynthia Kenyon

#33. I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Diane Wakoski

#34. A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

Thomas C. Foster

#35. They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.

Phar West Nagle

#36. I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

Muhammad Ali

#37. To give yourself away keep yourself still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

William Shakespeare