Reading Quote by Spike Milligan

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do…

— C. S. Lewis

“Shakespeare had nothing on you." "Would you rather I wrote you sonnets or made you see God?”

— N.M. Silber

Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet.

— Brook Lopez

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

— William Wordsworth

“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.”

— Virginia Woolf

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

— Kate Winslet

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing…

— Rufus Wainwright

“But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet…

— John Green

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will…

— Thom Gunn