Books Quote by Noel Coward

“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity…

— China Miéville

But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.

— Mark Rylance

“I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the…

— James M. Barrie

Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without the other.

— Paterson Joseph

“Shakespeare had nothing on you." "Would you rather I wrote you sonnets or made you see God?”

— N.M. Silber

“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis…

— Bill Hirst

“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought,…

— Mark Rylance

A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people…

— Thomas C Foster

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether…

— Lewis Mumford