England Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I was strong in English, and thankful for it. I knew the great Dr. Johnson from his friend Mr. Boswell. There is a friend…

— Richard Llewellyn

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets;…

— Charlotte Bronte

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

— Jonathan Coe

I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

— Phoebe Robinson

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of wine and…

— Nasty Nigel Lawrence

“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

Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a…

— Marvin Mudrick

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed…

— Jonathan Coe

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire