Anonymous Quote by Charles Dickens

“Yeah, but I don’t know. There is something about the tragic stories of Shakespeare. It’s as if we all know how it will end,…

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

“Usually, Shakespeare gives me goose bumps. The guy knows everything. Like some ancient angel quill-ing out blueprints life. Hiding it in fiction. And usually…

— Jolene Stockman

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

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

— Graham Greene

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“It's Shakespeare making fun of love.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson

“That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much…

— Elise Broach

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

— Virginia Woolf