Books Quote by Joseph Addison

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

— Robert Graves

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean…

— John Keats

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it…

— Simon Callow

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a…

— Mark Forsyth

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

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great…

— Jeremy Irons

William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a…

— James Arthur

“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation,…

— Jennifer Lee Carrell

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he…

— Sam Wanamaker