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
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really. — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
“As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare. — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I find Shakespeare surprisingly sexual. A lot of his language - a lot - has that kind of sexual innuendo that is… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we… — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“english So much to say, so little time. Miss Wilson kept interrupting our chat with her so-called love of Shakespeare. For goodness’… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Let’s test the Shakespearean model in the real world. Imagine a production called Gates and Schmidt, based on Romeo and Juliet. Montague… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving… — Peter Guthrie Tait Copy Share Image
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready.… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play. — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now. — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those. — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“Clearly Hamlet wasn’t just a fictional Prince of Denmark but also something of an alpha dodo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'll moider da bum - when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare — Tony Galento Copy Share Image
Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
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