27 William Shakespeare Quotes on Shakespeare

William Shakespeare quotes on shakespeare

1. All's Well That Ends Well

4. The Comedy of Errors

5. Coriolanus

6. Cymbeline

7. Henry IV, Part I

8. Henry IV, Part II

9. Henry VI, Part II

16. Measure for Measure

17. The Merchant of Venice

21. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

26. The Taming of the Shrew

29. Troilus and Cressida

30. Twelfth Night

31. Two Gentlemen of Verona

32. The Winter's Tale

36. I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture (Modern spelling: I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.)

40. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.

41. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

42. He was not of an age, but for all time!

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

43. I never quite despair and I read Shakspeare - indeed I shall I think never read any other Book much [...] I am very near Agreeing with Hazlit that Shakspeare is enough for us.

44. He has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing.

45. At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare posessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

46. Shakespeare led a life of Allegory; his works are the comments on it.

47. Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's; Therefore on him no speech!

49. The verbal poetic texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays.

50. Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

51. Last Words in Shakespeare