Binding Quote by Dodie Smith

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.”

— John Green

“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He…

— Katherine Rundell

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

— Mary Ruefle

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

— Chris Cornell

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He…

— John Dryden

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

— Horace Walpole

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less…

— Horace Walpole

“He quite certainly shouldn't care: and still he feels a hot sick bubbling in his gut, as if he'd drunk turned milk, or been…

— Alex Ankarr

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

— P. G. Wodehouse