Top 32 Shakespeare's Best Known Quotes
#1. In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
#2. All difficulties are easy when they are known.
#3. For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet
#4. Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
#5. She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known
#6. Life is an intresting journey where the beginning is known,way is a puzzle and the end is unknown
#7. every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.
#8. 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.
#9. The ordinary price paid for a new play was less than seven pounds; Oldys, on what authority is not known, says that Shakespeare received only five pounds for "Hamlet.
#10. ( ... )we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don't really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.
#11. Although nothing is known about the origin of the painting or where it was for much of the time before it came into the Chandos family in 1747, it has been said for a long time to be of William Shakespeare.
#12. He hath always but slightly, known himself ... King Lear
#13. For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.
#14. If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me
Either both or none.
#15. DON PEDRO Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?
LEONATO No, and swears she never will; that's her torment.
CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. 'Shall I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?
#16. To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
#17. Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised?
I'll say as they say, and persever so,
And in this mist at all adventures go.
#18. I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'
#19. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
#20. Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
#21. GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
EDGAR
A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
Am pregnant to good pity.
#22. Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.
#23. O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end
And then the end is known.
#24. Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
#25. People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
#26. My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
#27. As for the play itself, it is perhaps the most popular and well-known of all Shakespeare's works and is also the longest and arguably the most difficult to understand.
#28. Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?
#29. But hear thee, Gratiano:
Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice -
Parts that become thee happily enough,
And in such eyes as ours appear no faults,
But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Something too liberal.
#30. to early seen unknown...and known to late
#31. Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?
#32. Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.
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