Viola de Lesseps Quotes in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

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Viola de Lesseps Quotes:

  • Viola de Lesseps: [as Thomas Kent] Tell me how you love her, Will.

    William Shakespeare: Like a sickness and its cure together.

  • Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before.

    William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.

  • 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!

  • William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?

    Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?

  • Viola De Lesseps: I have never undressed a man before.

    William Shakespeare: It is strange to me, too.

  • Viola De Lesseps: [as Juliet] I do remember well where I should be, and there I am - where is my Romeo?

    Nurse: [shouting from the audience] Dead!

  • Nurse: Lord Wessex was looking at you tonight.

    Viola De Lesseps: All the men at court are without poetry. If they see me, they see my father's fortune, I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.

    Nurse: Not Valentine and Sylvia.

    Viola De Lesseps: No! Not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love as there has never been in a play. I will have love. Or I will end my days as a...

    Nurse: As a nurse?

    Viola De Lesseps: Oh, but I will be Valentine and Sylvia too. Oh, good nurse, God save you and good night.

  • Lord Wessex: I have spoken with your father.

    Viola De Lesseps: So, my lord? I speak with him every day.

  • 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: This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season.

  • 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.

  • [after sex]

    Viola De Lesseps: I would not have thought it: there IS something better than a play!

    William Shakespeare: There is.

    Viola De Lesseps: Even your play.

    William Shakespeare: Hmm?

    Viola De Lesseps: And that was only my first try.

  • Viola De Lesseps: Good morning, my lord. I see you are open for business - so let's to church.

  • William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.

    Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.

  • [Whispering at Viola's bedroom door]

    Nurse: My lady, the house is stirring. It is a new day.

    Viola De Lesseps: It is a new WORLD.

  • Queen Elizabeth: Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.

    Viola De Lesseps: Oh, but they can!

  • Viola de Lesseps: I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.

  • Viola De Lesseps: Good sir? I heard you were a poet. But a poet of no words?

  • Viola De Lesseps: I love you, Will, beyond poetry.

  • Viola de Lesseps: Nurse, as I love you and you love me, you will bind my breast and buy me a boy's wig.

  • Viola De Lesseps: It is a house of ill repute!

    William Shakespeare: It is, Thomas, but of good reputation. Come, there's no harm in a drink!

  • Viola de Lesseps: At sea, then - a voyage to a new world?... she lands upon a vast and empty shore. She is brought to the duke... Orsino.

    William Shakespeare: Orsino... good name.

  • Viola De Lesseps: Write me well.

  • Viola De Lesseps: [that she, as Thomas Kent, is actually a woman] Nobody knew.

    John Webster: [pointing to Will] He did! I saw him kissing her bubbies.

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