Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations

By William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is without doubt the most quoted writer in English. His plays and poems comprise an inexhaustible source of memorable and often profound thoughts beautifully and concisely expressed. This remarkably affordable volume presents over 400 quotations conveniently arranged by topic: love, marriage, conduct and morality, truth, beauty, time, death, music, and more.
Included are such timeless observations as: All that glitters is not gold, Brevity is the soul of wit, How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is/ To have a thankless child; While you live, tell truth and shame the devil ; The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream, and many more. Romantic thoughts receive a particularly rich treatment; extensive selections on the subject of love include quotes from the plays (The course of true love never did run smooth; Speak low if you speak love) and sonnets (For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings, / That then I scorn to change my state with kings). Each quote bears a complete citation.
Ideal for writers, speakers, students of literature, and any lover of Shakespeare's works, this inexpensive treasury lends itself admirably to a virtually endless number of uses, from casual browsing to designing personal greeting cards.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486404358
• ISBN13: 9780486404356
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Brevity is the soul of wit.

If you're looking for a complete and expensive collection of Shakespeare quotes, then look somewhere else. However, if you're looking for hundreds of his most famous quotes from his plays & sonnets in an abridged 64 page format arranged by subject for only a dollar - then look here!As the ostensibly wise Polonius so aptly put it, "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." Also recommended: Dover's Oscar Wilde's Wit & Wisdom. I read both of them whenever I'm bored and in need some intellectual stimulation - the best two investments per dollar you can make. Get thee to a nunnery! Urr...read this first.

Keep in mind this is a SLENDER Shakespeare!

Any disadvantage this book has is that it is so small . . . But it is a good foretaste to his words and wit.I bought this book as a "gateway" to understanding Shakespeare. We have these long scripts we are reading, these five act plays written in an indented poetic Elizabethan English, sometimes verbose. And our English teachers wonder why it is so hard to understand the Bard.(I wonder if Shakepseare envisioned people reading his scripts, insteady of watching the scripts acted out on the stage!)I bought this book and have read it in parallel with the play-scripts that I am studing. I can capture the meaningful quotes and ideas in the plays. And that has made all the differnce in my perosnal enjoyment of Shakespeare!

If you love Shakespeare, this book is for you!

This book includes famous quotes from a variety of literary works by William Shakespeare. If you love Shakespeare's amazing words but don't have the time to read all of his plays, this book is for you.