Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare. Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here — Eminem Copy Share Image
If we had been doing Shakespeare in doublet and hose for the past 500 years, it might have disappeared. — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
Something like Shakespeare in Love, which became such an established hit that it now seems like a foregone conclusion... but it really… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages. — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“These are the ushers of Martius: before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. Death, that dark spirit, in's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I said ”I love you so much it’s killing me” and you kept saying sorry so I stopped explaining for it never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I can't believe you quoted Shakespeare and the Doors in the same breath.” — Jessica Topper Copy Share Image
I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that. — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.' — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
“Nuestros actos prosiguen su camino, Que no conoce término. Maté a mi rey para que Shakespeare Urdiera su tragedia.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image