Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“T he a n swer to the que s t ion "Why Shakespeare?" must b e "Who e l s e i… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow. — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. — Ion Tiriac Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler 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
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
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
My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong.… — Charlotte Eriksson 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
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseththe disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
“I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” said Shakespeare.” — Christopher J Markert Copy Share Image
With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you? — Peter Hambleton Copy Share Image
“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
