Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works… — Bill Hirst Copy Share Image
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays? — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
“- Do you have books? - Books on what? - any thing, comets, gravity, black holes ... - Yeah, I've got Shakespeare,… — Conversation Copy Share Image
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: Nor to be seen: my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would… — Kevin Clifton Copy Share Image
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really… — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
