Quotes About Shakespeare's Globe

#1. By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

Alfred Enoch

#2. Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)
[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

William Shakespeare

#3. The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Alan Davies

#4. In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.

Juliet Rylance

#5. Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

Joanna Baillie

#6. All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Tacitus

#7. A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.

Arthur Ransome

#8. I love my Spanish fans!

Emilia Clarke

#9. I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

Ronald Reagan

#10. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.

Charles Dickens

#11. Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Lily Tomlin

#12. Someone should pay for their sins.
I'll show you Awful, humans.
I can't even see what I'm doing. All I know is rage, and panic, and darkness.

Rachel Cohn

#13. I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

Melanie Lynskey

#14. It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

Christian Louboutin

#15. Remember thee!
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe.

William Shakespeare

#16. Life is made of so many partings welded together

Charles Dickens

#17. The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

Ward Connerly

#18. Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.

Shilpa Menon

#19. She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

Dave Eggers

#20. In 1600, when Shakespeare's audience at the Globe heard 'Hamlet' for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

Neil MacGregor

#21. If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.

Thomas Muller