Faith Quote by Alfred B. Douglas

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.”

— Samuel Johnson

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is…

— T.S. Eliot

“Only one man had the circumstances and gifts to give us such incomparable works, and William Shakespeare of Stratfrod was unquestionably that man --…

— Bill Bryson

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson