Bites Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

— Dodie Smith

“Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a…

— Gilbert Highet

“My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel…

— Christine Wade

“He quite certainly shouldn't care: and still he feels a hot sick bubbling in his gut, as if he'd drunk turned milk, or been…

— Alex Ankarr

“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

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took…

— Virginia Woolf

“William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite. Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?”

— Marc Norman

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

— Horace Walpole

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

— Gene Weingarten