Dictionary Quote by Joseph Epstein

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

— Orson Welles

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you…

— Joseph Epstein

“Quotes are little packages of knowledge shared from others who have walked the path before, during and after us. They inspire, teach, encourage, inform…

— Kelly McNelis Senegor

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter,…

— Louise Imogen Guiney

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

— Jeanette Winterson

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“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

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

— Chris Cornell

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner