Furious Quote by Henry Fielding

“Jane Austen, who is said to be Shakespearian, never reminds us of Shakespeare, I think, in her full-dress portraits, but she does so in…

— A.C. Bradley

“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.”

— Elise Broach

“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

“Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was,…

— Virginia Woolf

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

“Her carriage bespoke an exquisite misery, a wretchedness so perfect and so absolute that it manifested as dignity, as calm. More than a dark…

— Eleanor Catton

“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to…

— Ian McEwan