First sight Quote by Arthur Phillips

Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without the other.

— Paterson Joseph

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love it [laughs]…

— Tom Hiddleston

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“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

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love...

— Emilie Autumn

“He may not have his love, but his protagonist did. And the novel needed to wax poetic about love. That had to be the…

— Chessela Helm

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

— Andre Holland

No hate to Shakespeare. I really love him.

— Rachel Sennott

“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.”

— William Shakespeare

“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when…

— Henry James

“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

— Marc Norman