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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. — George Bernard Shaw

Great floods have flown From simple sources. — William Shakespeare

I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ... — John Geddes

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. — Christopher Eccleston

O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock! — William Shakespeare

All's well that ends well. — William Shakespeare

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. — Diane Paulus

I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
of that quick spirit that is in Antony. — William Shakespeare

Mother, I will look to like. If looking liking moves. — William Shakespeare

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born. — William Shakespeare

I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause. — William Shakespeare

Some falls the means are happier to rise. — William Shakespeare

You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me. — William Shakespeare

The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare

Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. — William Shakespeare

Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that
Thou hast done to me.
Therefore turn and draw. — William Shakespeare

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. — Oscar Isaac

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov ... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death. — William Shakespeare

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. — William Shakespeare

Come not within the measure of my wrath. — William Shakespeare

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. — William Shakespeare

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves! — William Shakespeare

Maybe you're worried that I won't seduce you? — Kathy Bryson

I hate the murderer, love him murdered. — William Shakespeare

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor. — Terry Teachout

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over. — P.G. Wodehouse

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime ... — Brian Cox

A bashful smile ghosted his lips and his tense shoulders relaxed. "We're in fuckin' deep, aren't we, Shakespeare? — Tillie Cole

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. — Kate Winslet

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor. — Clark Gregg

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work. — Jonathan Tucker

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. — Ruth Rendell

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again. — Ken Kesey

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king. — Josephine Hull

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare. — Leo Tolstoy

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently. — Sam Waterston

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight. — William Shakespeare

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. — William Shakespeare

It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. — Amanda Craig

( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. — William Shakespeare

There's small choice in rotten apples. — William Shakespeare

Although the last, not least. — William Shakespeare

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. — William Shakespeare

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes. — William Shakespeare

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way. — William Moseley

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. — William Shakespeare

Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It — William Shakespeare

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. — William Shakespeare

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. — William Shakespeare

What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? — William Shakespeare

Alas, how love can trifle with itself! — William Shakespeare

Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare

The prize of all too precious you. — William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be. — William Shakespeare

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! — William Shakespeare

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams! — William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent? — William Shakespeare

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! — William Shakespeare

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. — William Shakespeare

Report me and my cause aright. — William Shakespeare

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough — William Shakespeare