Shakespeare in Love quotes

58 total quotes

Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels
Multiple Characters
Ned Alleyn

Philip Henslowe
Queen Elizabeth
Viola De Lesseps
William Shakespeare

View Quote [to her Nurse] I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play.

View Quote [to Rosaline] Are you to be my muse?

View Quote [to Viola, as they part] You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

View Quote [to Will] Good sir? I heard you were a poet. But a poet of no words?

View Quote [Tylney and Rosaline (Burbage's mistress) have just been discovered in Burbage's bed by Will, who barged in expecting to find Burbage] Like you, I found him not at home.

View Quote A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate. As unchangeable as nature.

View Quote And tell Master Shakespeare, something more cheerful next time, for Twelfth Night.

View Quote And you, Sir, are a Warwickshire shithouse.

View Quote Fifty pounds! A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? I bear witness to the wager, and will be the judge of it as occasion arises. I have not seen anything to settle it yet.

View Quote Good morning, my lord. I see you are open for business - so let's to church.

View Quote I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that.

View Quote I love you, Will, beyond poetry.

View Quote I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.

View Quote I'm a dead man and buggered to boot!

View Quote I'm fortune's fool!