I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his…

I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more…

— George Soros

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than…

— Julia Stiles

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

— George Orwell

I think anything that increases your understanding of the human condition... I think age and life, if you're lucky, makes you think deeper, and…

— Timothy Spall

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

— Oscar Isaac

But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver…

— William Alfred Quayle

“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether…

— Kenneth Branagh

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to…

— Gene Simmons

“You will never see the ends of his armies. They blanket the Earth as a storm blankets the sky, but the sun will never…

— Courtney Allison Moulton

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

— Patty Loveless

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

— Don Van Vliet

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English…

— Ken Robinson