Shakespearian Quotes

#1. Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Harold Bloom

#2. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov

#3. Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.

Ray Stevenson

#4. I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

Gayle Forman

#5. Jane Austen, who is said to be Shakespearian, never reminds us of Shakespeare, I think, in her full-dress portraits, but she does so in characters such as Miss Bates and Mrs. Allen.

A. C. Bradley

#6. You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Maude Adams

#7. My life will not be significantly impoverished if I never see another Shakespearian comedy.

Colin Dexter

#8. In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate or too extended to be briefly depicted.

Ian Gregor

#9. I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

Samira Wiley

#10. I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

Fran Drescher

#11. Just 'cause a book don't have a title, don't mean it don't have a name.

Kami Garcia

#12. A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

Vita Sackville-West

#13. Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.

Elizabeth Bear

#14. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Ronald Reagan

#15. Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that - a hope - as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.

Jasper Fforde

#16. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.

William Goldman

#17. Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

Tina Fey

#18. Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Octavia E. Butler

#19. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Solomon

#20. Moreover, the way the Jackson Democrats treated the Indians was not an aberration. Rather, it was only the beginning of a long subsequent Democratic Party history of dispossession, cruelty, bigotry, and theft.

Dinesh D'Souza

#21. I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

Gloria Stuart

#22. There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

John Bradshaw

#23. A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

Roxrite

#24. It's never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that lifts us above the din of confusion and arms us against the weapons of mass distraction.

Derek Rydall