Quote by L. Frank Baum

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

— Frederick Lenz

“Shakespeare doesn't mean: we mean by Shakespeare.”

— Terence Hawkes

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

— Tom Sturridge

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

— Ken Kesey

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

— Ted Rall

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Orson Welles

When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.

— Thea Sharrock

“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is…

— T.S. Eliot

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T