Quotes About Shakespeare Tragedy

#1. In Shakespeare, tragedy was the flame struck from the clash of moral principles; here

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

Rafe Esquith

#3. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

William Shakespeare

#4. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

#5. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

William Shakespeare

#6. How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#7. Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

William Shakespeare

#8. Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

Carlton Cuse

#9. She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

William Shakespeare

#10. I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

#11. The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy

William Shakespeare

#12. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

William Shakespeare

#13. Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

William Shakespeare

#14. Folly is
so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is
revealed as much in the insane asylum as in the writings of a
Cervantes or a Shakespeare, or in the deep psychological insights
and cries of revolt of a Nietzsche.

Richard Howard

#15. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done't!
Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#16. There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

Peggy Ashcroft

#17. Each new morn
New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds
As if it felt with Scotland, and yelled out
Like syllable of dolor.

William Shakespeare

#18. You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy.

Robyn Schneider

#19. Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

Robyn Schneider

#20. Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

William Shakespeare

#21. If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

Mark Helprin

#22. Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#23. I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

William Shakespeare

#24. Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.

James Shapiro

#25. I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.

William Shakespeare

#26. It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.

William Shakespeare

#27. Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

William Shakespeare

#28. I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Olivia Thirlby

#29. I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

William Shakespeare

#30. O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

#31. PROLOGUE:
For us and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your clemency,
We beg your hearing patiently.
HAMLET:
Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?

William Shakespeare

#32. Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

William Shakespeare

#33. The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

William Shakespeare

#34. If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his.

William Shakespeare

#35. Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

William Shakespeare

#36. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.

William Shakespeare

#37. Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
O hateful error, Melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engendered thee.

William Shakespeare