Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of… — Melvyn Bragg 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
'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
“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
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the… — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“In Hamlet, the hero hates his Uncle King Claudius so much that he avoids killing him while Claudius is praying in church,… — Elliot S! Maggin Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
