William Shakespeare Quote by Marc Norman

“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

— Marc Norman

“No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.”

— Harold Bloom

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Graham Greene

“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.”

— William Shakespeare

“Come, all sad and solemn shows,   That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes!   We convènt naught else but woes. William Shakespeare”

— George Chityil

“He has not lived in vain who dies the day he is told about the Way.”

— Confucius

“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly

“Shakespeare never did this.”

— Charles Bukowski

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

— Robert Graves

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

— Terence Hawkes