Heart Quote by Robert Browning

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

— Phoebe Robinson

“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

“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I,…

— Nina LaCour

“All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

— William F. Buckley, Jr

One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.

— Mariette Hartley

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

— Christopher Isherwood