I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
“Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare would have Facebook.. It would be like: Juliet is in a relationship and its complicated.. And guess who would be… — Kand3n Copy Share Image
The range of Shakespeare's characters is just enormous. Each one of them, whether it's a man or woman, prince or pauper, hero… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece , where virtue is so low-spirited, its… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world! As I do live by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
