Accounts Quote by T. S. Eliot

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had…

— Jonas Salk

“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more…

— Ronald Carter

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love...

— Emilie Autumn

“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

— Gerrit Smith

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what…

— George Meredith

“Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by…

— Ian Wilson

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

— Jay-Z

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He…

— John Dryden

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf

“They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue." Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.”

— Robin Sloan

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't…

— Walter Dean Myers

Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well,…

— Carl Reiner

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it…

— Simon Callow