All time Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

— Samuel Johnson

“Come, all sad and solemn shows,   That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes!   We convènt naught else but woes. William Shakespeare”

— George Chityil

“Shakespeare called the eyes the windows of the soul.”

— Jonathan Berent

“We sat there in our flower crowns until the world went dark, until we were half-sick from sugar but still laughing, laughing, laughing like…

— Emery Lord

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

— Peter Saccio

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

— Laurence Olivier

“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

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has…

— G.K. Chesterton

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare

— SangFroid Stalker

“Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere…

— Henry Rago

“The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we…

— Orison Swett Marden