“my heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“What’s past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don’t bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way… — Anthony Grey Copy Share Image
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought… — Judy Davis Copy Share Image
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar” — Lisa M. Collins Copy Share Image
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Kneel not, gentle Portia. Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,… — William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In Old English, thou ( thee, thine , etc.) was singular and you was plural. But during the thirteenth century, you started… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“There is nothing either good or bad,” said Shakespeare, “but thinking makes it so.” — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z 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
“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Julia Gregson 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
I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages. — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?” — William Shakespeare 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
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there. — Teller Copy Share Image
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
