Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.' — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language. — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was… — Eamonn Walker Copy Share Image
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of… — William Shakespeare 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
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the… — Cynthia Kenyon 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
“William Shakespeare was baptized and buried at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. April marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
