Frustrating Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald Download Open image “Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frustrating Surprising
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation,… — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't… — Rick Rowley Copy Share Image
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where things are… — Muneshine Copy Share Image
I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one. — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating;… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image