Quote by John Green

“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

“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

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

— Cassandra Giovanni

“What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

— Laurence Olivier

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

— Samuel Johnson

“That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Jeanette Winterson

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

— Al Pacino

“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound…

— N.M. Lombardi