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Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

— Samuel Johnson

“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written…

— Charles Nicholl

“All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

— Raymond Chandler

“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

“We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.”

— Ada Palmer

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

— Daniel Craig

“That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.”

— Gayle Forman

“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