Brilliant Quote by Carol Zaleski

“One thing he'd learned in ten years on the New York Stage was this: don't make friends with the man who plays Hamlet; make…

— Thomas Dyja

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

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

— Samuel Johnson

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be…

— D. A. Carson

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of…

— John Lithgow

The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and…

— David Mamet

Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World…

— Vicki Myron

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one…

— C. S. Lewis

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy…

— Woody Allen

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

— Al Pacino

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is…

— Virginia Woolf

To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken…

— Felicity Kendal