By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“The great chandeliers hang silent. The tables in the vast dining room overlooking the lake are spread with white cloth and silver… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Ribs closing on his heart, Will battled internal sirens whose song he couldn’t yet decipher. During his childhood, ‘sin’ had been such… — Ingela Bohm Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Newton: but a lot of the guys here were in prison before they came here and they’ll still be in prison when… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“An Eleventh Pretender by Stewart Stafford Pardon me, thou art king Of paling November’s hedgerow, Demanding fealty from December, That crowns the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us.… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“Must I observe you? Must I stand & crouch Under your testy humour? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
![“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.” quote by Roger Allam](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ca3/roger-allam-7409_life_measure-for-measure-leaves-me-with-the-s_3001902.jpg)
![“I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by…” quote by Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c30/harold-bloom-3350_feelings_i-won-t-say-he-shakespeare-invented-us-b_2229453.jpg)
