Action Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

— Paul McCartney

“But now it seems clear that literary criticism was inherently doomed. Explicitly or otherwise it had based itself on a structure of echelons and…

— Martin Amis

“In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they…

— Bob Harris

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

— Christian Cooke

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like…

— Carrie Preston

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will…

— Allan Bloom

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

— Anthony Hopkins

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've…

— Hugh Laurie

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

— Lenny Henry

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf