I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
“Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody,… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“The time approaches That will with due decision make us know What we shall say we have and what we owe. Thoughts… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“For example, nowadays Shakespeare is identified with all that is lofty and high brown about culture. However, on May 10, 1849, what… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
“Miss Rasputin, what a delight to finally meet you,” said the vamp, speaking with only the faintest hint of an accent. “Let’s… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“She could envision Shakespeare's sister. But she imagined a violent, an apocalyptic end for Shakespeare's sister, whereas I know that isn't what… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she… — John Green Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“He turned toward my voice. "Am I well?" His mocking tone was unmistakable. "Am I well? Why can't you just talk like… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can… — Paul Barnes Copy Share Image
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I’m having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, ‘Oy Tony!’ I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
