Folly Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— George Chityil

“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any…

— Stephen King

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like…

— George Etherege

“Lord Hamlet, It seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trust…

— Lisa Klein

“What could she tell him? I notice everything about him, from his flawed nose to his battle scars to his eyes as blue as…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

— Marc Norman

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world,…

— Nadine Gordimer

“It's Shakespeare making fun of love.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

“Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.”

— Henry Fielding