“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.” — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
“my heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall." - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“De nem mondta-e meg már Shakespeare is, hogy aki mosolyog, gazember is lehet?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth, And ere a man hath… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think… — Brian d'Arcy James Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Kneel not, gentle Portia. Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,… — William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
