Balls Quote by Louis Auchincloss

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

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

— Voltaire

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no…

— Suzanne Weyn

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie

“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

I had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare and a…

— Geraldine James

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

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.

— Julie White

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson