Dinner party Quote by Glen Duncan

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to…

— Mel Giedroyc

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

“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

“There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a…

— David Berman

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.”

— Kevin N. Fair

“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?”

— Alan Bradley

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

— Lenny Henry

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“It's Shakespeare making fun of love.”

— Rainbow Rowell