Favorite Comedy Quotes
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.
William Shakespeare: His name is Mercutio.
Ned Alleyn: What's the name of the play?
William Shakespeare: Mercutio.
Philip Henslowe: It is?
William Shakespeare: Shh!
This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season.
Viola De Lesseps
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.
Viola De Lesseps: I loved a writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
William Shakespeare: I was the more deceived.
Viola De Lesseps: Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.
Love knows nothing of rank or river bank.
William Shakespeare
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!
Good sir? I heard you were a poet. But a poet of no words?
Viola De Lesseps
I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.
Viola de Lesseps
Good morning, my lord. I see you are open for business - so let's to church.
Viola De Lesseps
I love you, Will, beyond poetry.
Viola De Lesseps
Let us have pirates, clowns, and a happy ending, or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife!
Philip Henslowe
