England Quote by Kenneth Tynan

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger…

— Garry Hynes

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist”

— Timothy Ferriss

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

— Ian McElhinney

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

— Garry Hynes

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some level, bites…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as…

— Walter Hamilton

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this…

— William S. Burroughs

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

— Anthony Hopkins

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

— Roger Rees

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

— Pete Doherty