Shakespeare Wisdom Quotes

#1. The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock

#2. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.

Richard Ronald Allan

#3. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Harold Bloom

#4. Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

William Shakespeare

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

Steve Coogan

#6. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

#7. What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

#8. The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else.

John C. McGinley

#9. Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

William Shakespeare

#10. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Dejan Stojanovic

#12. And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14

William Shakespeare

#13. I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand. - From Hamlet by Shakespeare

Matthew Quick

#14. Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Raquel Cepeda