Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".” — Bill Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him! — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got,… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image
“Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part.… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
