Abraham Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current…

— John Dos Passos

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst of civil…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

— Jonathan Raban

Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land.…

— Jan Morris

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

— Adam DeVine

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of…

— George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.

— Sam Wanamaker

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

— Julian Barnes

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's…

— Alex Cox