William Shakespeare Quotes About Reading

• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

• O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Dumb

  Sonnet 23

• T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Reading, Magic, Literacy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 70

• How well he's read, to reason against reading!

  William Shakespeare

  Reading, Reason, Wells

  1594-5 King. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.94.

• Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Tenors

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

• I'll read enough
  When I do see the very book indeed
  Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Sin

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.136

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