Literature quotes

“- Lt. Frankie Reno: Why are you teaching the dogs Shakespeare?
- Colonel Kane: Someone's got to do it.”
Jason Miller - Lt. Frankie Reno
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

“Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.”
John Lithgow

“Hamlet was made for Freud. Not you.”
Constance Towers - Cathy

“Only the early Fitzgerald was great, then came an orgy of brutal realism.”
Jean Rougeul - Carini

“Shakespeare was not meant for taverns... nor for tavern louts.”
Alan Mowbray - Granville Thorndyke

“- Col. Mathieu: What were they saying in Paris yesterday?
- Journalist: Nothing. Sartre's written another article.
- Col. Mathieu: Will you kindly explain to me why the Sartres are always born on the other side?
- Journalist: So you like Sartre, Colonel?
- Col. Mathieu: Not really, but I like him even less as an adversary.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.”
Christopher Hampton

- Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "to thine own self be true".
- Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
- Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
- Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.
Susan Mohun - Heather
Alicia Silverstone - Cher

“Not essential? I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word. I teach history and literature, since when it's not essential?”
Uri Avrahami - Chaim Nowak

- Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas. He wrote "The Three Musketeers." I figured you must be an admirer. You named your slave after his novel's lead character. If Alexander Dumas had been there today, I wonder what he would have made of it?
- Calvin Candie: You doubt he'd approve?
- Dr. King Schultz: Yes. His approval would be a dubious... (continue)(continue reading)
Christoph Waltz - Dr. King Schultz
Leonardo DiCaprio - Calvin Candie

“The movies are the new literature.”
Cecil Blount DeMille

“Well that was bloody Shakespearian. Do you know who Shakespeare is? He wrote the King James Bible.”
Brendan Gleeson - Walter 'Monk' McGinn

“I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true.”
Kate Winslet - Iris

“In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.”
Charlton Heston

“Now, remember son: stay in school, eat your veggies, and burn everything but Shakespeare.”
Johnny Depp - Rango

“I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

- Chaz: Hi, what're you reading?
- Nan: Milton's "Paradise Lost", for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.
- Chaz: Dying...
- Nan: Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Leah Pinsent - Nan

“- Brie Marschz: Hamlet 2?
- Dana Marschz: The Deuce. Correct.
- Brie Marschz: Doesn't everybody die at the end of the first one?”

Catherine Keener - Brie Marschz
Steve Coogan - Dana Marschz

“- Peter Highman: That was William Shakespeare. Have you heard of him?
- Ethan Tremblay: Yes, I've heard of Shakespeare. He was a famous pirate. By the way it’s ‘Shakesbeard’.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Peter Highman
Zach Galifianakis - Ethan Tremblay

“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
Dame Judi Dench

“English culture is highly literary-based.”
Peter Greenaway

“- George Emerson: My father says there is only one perfect view, and that's the view of the sky over our heads.
- Cecil Vyse: I expect your father has been reading Dante.”
Julian Sands - George Emerson
Daniel Day-Lewis - Cecil Vyse

“Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?”
Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender

“- Frank Ginsberg: Do you know who Marcel Proust is?
- Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.
- Frank Ginsberg: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare.”
Steve Carrell - Frank Ginsberg
Paul Dano - Dwayne

It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with "He dies". And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's only natural to be sad, but not because of the words "He dies". but because of the life we saw prior to the words.

Dustin Hoffman - Mr. Edward Magorium