Absolutely nothing Quote by Mary Ruefle

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

— Edward Bond

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

— T. S. Eliot

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise…

— Daniel Hannan

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English…

— Ken Robinson

You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

— Patsy Rodenburg

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition,

— Sharon Gless

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

— Alanis Morissette

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

— Christina Ricci

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

— John Lithgow