Quote by Samuel G Engel

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

— David Boreanaz

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

— Chris Cornell

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

— Campbell Scott

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current…

— John Dos Passos

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

— Dario Fo

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

— Joan Collins

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

— Edward Bond

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

— John Sununu

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

— Harold Pinter

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

— Cormac McCarthy