Civilized Quote by Amy Koppelman

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

— John Sununu

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

— Edward Hall

“Shakespeare doesn't mean: we mean by Shakespeare.”

— Terence Hawkes

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

— L. Frank Baum

“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?”

— Lenore Look

“Peace? I hate the word — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet”

— Karpov Kinrade

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley