Activism Quote by Jonathan Talat Phillips

“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!”

— George Bernard Shaw

Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings,…

— Rhys Ifans

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet, the trade…

— Anand Neelakantan

“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

“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love it [laughs]…

— Tom Hiddleston

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

— Charles Dickens