Catastrophe Quote by Andrew Coyle Bradley

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

— Michael J. Saylor

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his…

— Nate Silver

One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.

— Mariette Hartley

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do…

— Julie Taymor

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

— Charles Dickens

This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited…

— George Gissing

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's…

— Oscar Isaac

Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too…

— L. Sprague de Camp

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley