Country Quote by Elizabeth Montagu

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

— Sam Wanamaker

“We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.”

— Ada Palmer

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

— Eric Bischoff

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

— Allan Bloom

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

— Toni Morrison

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

— Adrian Dunbar

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

— Adam DeVine

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that…

— Joseph Devlin

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of…

— Edward Abbey

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom