“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another law by… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. — H. C. Bunner Copy Share Image
“Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
Juliet: I will be thy chased rose and take thy name. My heart will continue drumming its love for you the same;… — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
“Just before we have sex, the question often is: To pee, or not to pee?” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When she was a child, she'd often wondered about the old manor. Some said the place was haunted, but she thought it… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
