Dissection Quote by Matthew Pearl

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees…

— T. S. Eliot

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

— Al Pacino

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

— Martin Freeman

“read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I”

— Gloria Steinem

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread…

— Jane Austen

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing…

— Harold Bloom

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

— John Kani

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

— Anonymous

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's…

— Ralph Ellison

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