Shakespeare Wisdom and Wit

by C. Merton Babcock (editor)

Quotation book

Genres: Poetry

60 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Cale Manley]

Incredible insight on life and human nature. I also forgot how witty and humorous Shakespeare is. I like the compiler of this book—I think he’s related to my friend Orville J. Babcock.

[Saipriya N · Rating 3 out of 5]

Felt nostalgic. Made me remember my school days.

This is a book where the author picks up a few lines about men, Women, the universe, life, love, honor, truth, wisdom, death from the books written by the great Shakespeare, like Hamlet, As you like it, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, etc, etc.

There were many lines that I couldn't really understand.
Damn his English! 😭😍
Reading this book now makes me wonder how did I manage in my boards. 😂

[Katie]

This was such a fun little quote book.

I had no idea what to expect going into this as I just stumbled upon it in our collection, but what this is is a book of Shakespeare quotes broken down into categories. It was an interesting way to look at his work.

I can see myself revisiting this from time to time in the future and it's definitely piqued my interest in several of Shakespeare's plays I haven't read, or made me want to revisit some I have.

[Sana Ziya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Witty and funny, no one writes like Shakespeare! One gem of English literature.

[Derryn Theresa Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Made me recall all the Shakespeare that I read in school

[Nicole]

Abandoned.
Sooo the illustrations are really great but Shakespeare out of context, just doesn't exactly work. Some of the quotations still hit the mark but others fall short away from the narrative. It seemed sort of irrelevant to read or finish. I think if you want to read Shakespeare wit and wisdom just read Shakespeare and not a book with different bits of his work.

[Michael P. · Rating 2 out of 5]

What do you give the Shakespeare fan in your life? Not this quotation book with short out of context quotations. A Shakespeare quote book can't actually be bad, but this one is for toilet reading only.