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Shakespeare in Love

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 Philip Henslowe: The show must... you know...
William Shakespeare: [prompting him] Go on!
View Quote Lord Wessex: I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon. Do you have a name?
William Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe, at your service.
View Quote [singing the stage directions] Gentlemen upstage; ladies downstage... Are you a lady Mr. Kent?
View Quote Nurse: My lady, the house is stirring. It is a new day.
Viola De Lesseps: It is a new WORLD.
View Quote The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
View Quote I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.
View Quote [expressing displeasure with Juliet's performance] Suffering cats!
View Quote William Shakespeare: I have a new play.
Christopher Marlowe: What's it called?
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter.
Christopher Marlowe: What is the story?
William Shakespeare: Well, there's this pirate... In truth I have not written a word.
Christopher Marlowe: Romeo...Romeo is Italian. Always in and out of love.
William Shakespeare: Yes, that's good. Until he meets...
Christopher Marlowe: Ethel
William Shakespeare: Do you think?
Christopher Marlowe: The daughter of his enemy.
William Shakespeare: The daughter of his enemy...
Christopher Marlowe: His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel's brother, or something. His name is Mercutio.
William Shakespeare: Mercutio...Good name.
Nol: Will, they're waiting for you!
William Shakespeare: I'm coming...Good luck with yours, Kit.
Christopher Marlowe: I thought your play was for Burbage.
William Shakespeare: This is a different one.
Christopher Marlowe: A different one you haven't written?
View Quote [Authorizing Lord Wessex to marry Viola] Have her, then, but you're a lordly fool. She's been plucked since I saw her last - and not by you. It takes a woman to know it.
View Quote [on first hearing the tragic ending to Romeo and Juliet] Well, that will have them rolling in the aisles.
View Quote Viola de Lesseps: [as Thomas Kent] Tell me how you love her, Will.
William Shakespeare: Like a sickness and its cure together.
View Quote And you, Sir, are a Warwickshire shithouse.
View Quote Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
View Quote William Shakespeare: Follow that boat!
Boatman: Right you are, guv'nor!... I know your face. Are you an actor?
William Shakespeare: Yes.
Boatman: Yes, I've seen you in something. That one about a king.
William Shakespeare: Really?
Boatman: I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.
[Will sighs]
View Quote [on learning the fate of his character] He dies?