Shakespeare's Life Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Shakespeare's Life

Shakespeare's Life Quotes & Sayings

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the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel. — Wayne C. Booth

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world! — William Shakespeare

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare

Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend. — William Shakespeare

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means! — William Shakespeare

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. — William Shakespeare

Say a day without the ever. — William Shakespeare

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. — William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. — William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. — William Shakespeare

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. — Marc Norman

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. — Charles Stuart Calverley

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare. — Aaron Sorkin

Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breath
What thou hast said to me. — William Shakespeare

Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. — William Shakespeare

But here must end the story of my life,
And happy were I in my timely death
Could all my travels warrant me they live. — William Shakespeare

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground. — William Shakespeare

For death remembered should be like a mirror,
Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error. — William Shakespeare

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. — Karen Allen

Let every man be master of his time. — William Shakespeare

This might be the be-all and end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come — William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. — William Shakespeare

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. — Susan Hill

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

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

My desolation does begin to make a better life. — William Shakespeare

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace. — William Shakespeare

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. — William Shakespeare

To sue to live, I find I seek to die;
And, seeking death, find life. — William Shakespeare

Life is but a walking shadow — William Shakespeare

Life ... is a paradise to what we know of death. — William Shakespeare

The sands are number'd that make up my life. — William Shakespeare

My love to love is love but to disgrace it,
For I have heard it is a life in death,
That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath. — William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it. — William Shakespeare

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life. — Simon Callow

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt. — William Shakespeare

I see a man's life is a tedious one. — William Shakespeare

I am sure care's an enemy to life. — William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. — William Shakespeare

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. — William Shakespeare

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. — Bill Russell

To paraphrase Shakespeare's Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight. — Lynn Steward

Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy. — William Shakespeare

Life isn't but a feather floating in the wind. One second it's in your grasp, next second, it's floating high, wondering what is to come. — William Shakespeare

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people. — Joss Whedon

Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine. — Hector Berlioz

Life's an Unceartian Voyage — William Shakespeare

And a man's life's no more than to say "One." — William Shakespeare

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. — William Shakespeare

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death. — William Shakespeare

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
...
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor. — William Shakespeare

On a day - alack the day! -
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air — William Shakespeare

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! — William Shakespeare

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. — William Shakespeare

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! — William Shakespeare

My wife's liver Infected as her life, she would not live The running of one glass. — William Shakespeare

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. — William Shakespeare

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. — William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live — William Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy o' the whole table. Macbeth — William Shakespeare

What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'? — Solange Nicole

She's so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her. The — William Shakespeare

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that. — Stephen King

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life. — William Shakespeare

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. — William Shakespeare

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare

Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none — William Shakespeare

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. — Harold Bloom

Hat our contempt often hurls from us,
We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering,does become
The opposite of itself.. — William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life. — Joss Whedon

Life is better life past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear. — William Shakespeare

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail. — Kathleen Tessaro

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation. — Jean Webster

life is like theater — William Shakespeare

So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end — William Shakespeare

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure? — William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. — William Shakespeare

Keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key. — William Shakespeare

Life's but a walking shadow — William Shakespeare

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. — 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

O excellent! I love long life better than figs. — William Shakespeare

I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? — William Shakespeare

Ten masts make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life's a miracle. — William Shakespeare

The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow! — William Shakespeare

The death of each days life — William Shakespeare

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. — William Shakespeare

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. — William Shakespeare

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle? — William Shakespeare

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.
Take honor from me, and my life is done. — William Shakespeare

Even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peering. — William Shakespeare

Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn — William Shakespeare

Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. — William Shakespeare