| Author |
Quotes |
| Ben Jonson | I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand. |
| Ben Jonson | He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm! |
| Ben Jonson | Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. |
| Mark Akenside | This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire. |
| Matthew Arnold | Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. |
| Matthias Claudius | Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep; And Shakespeare weeps with me. |
| Richard Watson Gilder | Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time, That we no more our verse would scrawl, For Shakespeare he had said it all! |
| Thomas Heywood | Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will. |
| Tony Galento | I'll moider da bum. |
| William Basse | Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. |
| William Hazlitt | If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time. |
| John Dryden | But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be, Within that circle none durst walk but he. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. |
| Robert Browning | "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be! |
| Samuel Johnson | The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. |
| Unattributed Author | This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages. |
| William Shakespeare | Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| - Page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 - 39 - 40 - 41 - Next |