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“I still contend that Shakespeare is a dirty old man.”

— Stephanie Riggs

“He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to…

— Adrian McKinty

“Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.”

— Louise Bogan

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

— Charles Dickens

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We look upon our hands. We see the dust of centuries, the dust which hid great secrets and perhaps great evils. And yet it…

— Ayn Rand

“In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to find a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In vain!—As fall the dews on quenchless sands, Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands!”

— Lord Byron

“Farewell, we must part; we have turned from the land Of our cold-hearted brother, with tyrannous hand, Who assumed all our rights as a…

— Frank Moore

“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

“And the man clad in black and silver with a silver rose upon him? He would like to think that he has learned something…

— Roger Zelazny