It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers'… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
“We've all heard that millions of monkeys banging on millions of keyboards will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to… — Robert Wilensky Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to… — Jess Winfield Copy Share Image
“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while,… — Sōseki Natsume 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
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
“Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I wonder if Shakespeare ever had to write a play in 10 days while suffering from jet-lag? Probably. It would explain why… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie 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
“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the… — Harold Bloom 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
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language… — James Avery Copy Share Image
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
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