Shakespeare Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”

— Amanda Craig

“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following…

— Samuel Johnson

“Usually, Shakespeare gives me goose bumps. The guy knows everything. Like some ancient angel quill-ing out blueprints life. Hiding it in fiction. And usually…

— Jolene Stockman

“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life…

— Virginia Woolf

“He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often…

— Paul Auster

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but…

— Jess Winfield

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were…

— William Wordsworth