William Shakespeare Quotes About Genius

• He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Genius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

• As I hope
  For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
  With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
  The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
  Our worser genius can, shall never melt
  Mine honour into lust, to take away
  The edge of that day's celebration,
  When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd
  Or Night kept chain'd below.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Night, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1844). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone : with a Life of the Poet”, p.13

• There is none but he
  Whose being I do fear; and under him
  My genius is rebuked, as it is said
  Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

  William Shakespeare

  Genius, Antony, Said

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.855, Wordsworth Editions

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