Humor Quote by Colleen Houck

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago”

— William Shakespeare

“My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel…

— Christine Wade

“A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.”

— Yukio Mishima

“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

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”

— Amanda Craig

“What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

— Shakespeare

“I love violent Shakespeare. It is to me what steak is to some people: the bloodier the better.”

— Mara Wilson

“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.”

— David C. Lindberg

“Some wounds never heal, and that man has just taken such a wounding.”

— Steven Erikson

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens