Shakespeare Play Quotes
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You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
— Stan Lee
If music be the food of love, play on rock on . William Shakespeare- love evolution — Michelle Mankin
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
— Arthur Smith
The play's the thing." ~~Hamlet
— William Shakespeare
Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!
— William Shakespeare
Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
— Basil Rathbone
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play thefool no where but in's own house. — William Shakespeare
Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see. — William Shakespeare
Play out the play ...
— William Shakespeare
And what's he then that says I play the villain?
— William Shakespeare
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
— Alan Ayckbourn
How every fool can play upon the word!
— William Shakespeare
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in. — William Shakespeare
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
— Mark Rylance
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
— Aaron Yoo
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
— Virginia Woolf
Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.
— William Shakespeare
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite ... a play of Shakespeare's.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
— Samuel Johnson
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
— William Shakespeare
Educated men are so impressive!
— William Shakespeare
Shall we upon the footing of our landSend fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
To arms invasive? — William Shakespeare
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
— William Shakespeare
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
— Kevin Kline
I talk of you:Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am. — William Shakespeare
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,Ang'ring itself and others. — William Shakespeare
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
— William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
— William Shakespeare
If music is the food of love, play on.
— William Shakespeare
I will play the swan. And die in music.
— William Shakespeare
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
— William Shakespeare
That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.
— Gayle Forman
I hold the world but as the world ... - / A stage where every man must play a part
— William Shakespeare
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
— Phil Daniels
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
— William Shakespeare
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
— William Shakespeare
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
— William Shakespeare
What a fool honesty is.
— William Shakespeare
I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
— Kelli O'Hara
You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.
— Michelle Dockery
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
— Dominick Dunne
Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
— William Shakespeare
Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
— William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It
— William Shakespeare
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
— Carol Zaleski
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.
— William Shakespeare
Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation.
— William Shakespeare
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
— William Shakespeare
I think," said antonio , "that the world is astage. Everybody has a part to play , and my part is sad part .
— William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
— Voltaire
With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.
— John C. McGinley
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne ... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play
— Tupac Shakur
They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.
— Cassandra Giovanni
And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. — William Shakespeare
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'dAnd wonder'd at the work herself had made. — Charles Churchill
Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
— William Shakespeare
The play's the thing.
— William Shakespeare
I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
— Tamara Tunie
Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time
— William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe