Humor Quote by Samuel Johnson

“A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

— George Chityil

“What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its bitterest rigour…

— Stewart Stafford

“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

“It's Shakespeare making fun of love.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

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

“The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things…

— Jim Butcher

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

— Robert Graves

“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.”

— Karen Harper