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
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — 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
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“In Hamlet, the hero hates his Uncle King Claudius so much that he avoids killing him while Claudius is praying in church,… — Elliot S! Maggin Copy Share Image
“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the… — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and… — Carla Lynn Stockton Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He was not afraid. At every moment Nature signified by some laughing hint like that gold spot which went round the wall--there,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another,… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
“The Diverted Imperium by Stewart Stafford Welcome to my lush vineyard, As we crush poison grapes, Forcing that last vinegar sip, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history.… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with… — David Furnish Copy Share Image
Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer,… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The… — Bill Bryson 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, conjectures — an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/64f/mark-twain-22_eiffel-tower_all-the-rest-of-shakespeare-s-vast-histo_2232027.png)
![“[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to be heard first and read second. Well, what about plays, you could reasonably ask. Is [William] Shakespeare not great literature? Yes, obviously: but his work is great…” quote by David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0dd/david-bennun-25818_art_bob-dylan-is-principally-a-recording-art_442460.jpg)
![“In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/441/margaret-atwood-40_cases_in-shakespeare-saved-my-life-author-laur_2156889.jpg)
