Moral Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's…

— Alex Cox

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

— Jay-Z

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that…

— Joseph Devlin

“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than…

— Thomas Carlyle