Shakespeare in Love Quotes

William Shakespeare You see? The comsumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it.

William Shakespeare Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

William Shakespeare I'm done with theater. The playhouse is for dreamers. Look what the dream brought us.

Viola De Lesseps It was we ourselves did that. And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise.

Quotes about Shakespeare in Love I have always liked movies, and sometimes an image or a scene or a character stays with me for years and inspires me when I write. For example: the magic in Fanny and Alexander or the story within a story of Shakespeare in Love.

Viola De Lesseps 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 overthrows 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.

Viola De Lesseps I have never undressed a man before.

William Shakespeare It is strange to me, too.

Philip Henslowe The show must... you know...

William Shakespeare Go on!

Queen Elizabeth 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.

Queen Elizabeth Master Kent, as I foretold, Lord Wessex has lost his wife to the theater. Go, make your farewell, and send her out.

Taglines Love is the only inspiration.

Viola De Lesseps Write me well.

Viola de Lesseps Tell me how you love her, Will.

William Shakespeare Like a sickness and its cure together.

Viola De Lesseps I would not have thought it: there IS something better than a play!

William Shakespeare There is.

Viola De Lesseps Even your play.

William Shakespeare Hmm?

Viola De Lesseps And that was only my first try.

Viola De Lesseps I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.

Taglines A Comedy About the Greatest Love Story Almost Never Told...

Richard Burbage The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours.

Lord Wessex How is this to end?

Queen Elizabeth As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.

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

Philip Henslowe Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Hugh Fennyman So what do we do?

Philip Henslowe Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.

Hugh Fennyman How?

Philip Henslowe I don't know. It's a mystery. (recurring line)

William Shakespeare My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.

Lord Wessex Is she obedient?

Sir Robert de Lesseps As any mule in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.

Lord Wessex I like her!