England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
“Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
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 of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! — Robert Browning 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
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
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
When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an… — John Kani Copy Share Image
“Oh Blimey O‘Reilly's pantyhose...what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave… — Louise Rennison 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 think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of… — Ben Kingsley 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
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
“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,… — 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 had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare… — Geraldine James 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
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. — Edward Bond 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
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 love Shakespeare, but sometimes…his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head…” — John Geddes 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
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin 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
