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Shakespeare Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an…
- This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
- If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon…
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
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- I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie
- Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan
- I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and… — Orlando Bloom
- One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of… — Kenneth Branagh
- If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers
- The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! — Robert Browning
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets… — James Buchan
- In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
- I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage
- As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.… — Leonard Cohen
- I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for… — Karen Allen