Shakspeare Quotes

#1. If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Walt Whitman

#3. Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. ==========

Anonymous

#5. But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out.

Walter Scott

#6. My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

Janet McTeer

#7. The Lappell, Miss Rossi ... Have the power to turn your fate, upside down. We. See. All.

Angela Richardson

#8. Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!)

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Robert M. Hutchins

#10. Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

Walter De La Mare

#11. The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

#12. I don't think the moral is good; and if any of you thuckeens go about imitating Anty in her laziness, you'll find it won't thrive with you as it did with her. She was beautiful beyond compare, which none of you are, and she had three powerful fairies to help her besides.

W.B.Yeats

#13. I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they're dating.

Rob Riggle

#14. The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, Armageddon.

Billy Graham

#15. I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Aaron Sorkin

#16. When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

Hamish Linklater

#17. The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Zadie Smith