Age Quote by Horace Walpole

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less…

— Horace Walpole

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

— Thomas Carlyle

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done…

— Raymond Chandler

“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.”

— Roger Shattuck

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation,…

— George Edward Woodberry

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

— John Keats

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified…

— Joseph Addison

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

— Kenneth Branagh