Friendship Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a…

— Patrick Stewart

“That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.”

— Gayle Forman

“Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.”

— Louise Bogan

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling…

— P. G. Wodehouse

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

“Come, all sad and solemn shows,   That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes!   We convènt naught else but woes. William Shakespeare”

— George Chityil

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears…

— Richard Crashaw

“But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off.” —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night’s Dream The”

— Connie Willis

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

Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the…

— Meghan O'Rourke