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

View Quote This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season.

View Quote Let us have pirates, clowns, and a happy ending, or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife!

View Quote What is the play and what is my part?

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

View Quote Viola De Lesseps: Master Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare: The same, alas.
Viola De Lesseps: Oh, but why "alas"?
William Shakespeare: A lowly player.
Viola De Lesseps: Alas indeed, for I thought you the highest poet of my esteem and writer of plays that capture my heart.
William Shakespeare: Oh - I am him too!

View Quote William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?
Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?

View Quote Mr. Tilney! Have a care with my name - you will wear it out!

View Quote It is not a comedy I'm writing now.

View Quote Love knows nothing of rank or river bank.

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

View Quote [reacting to another actor during rehearsal] Are you going to do it like that?

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

View Quote Pay attention and you will see how genius creates a legend.