Accounts Quote by T. S. Eliot

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play…

— Ian Mcewan

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

— Mary Ruefle

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

— Frank McCourt

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

— Janet Suzman

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

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

— Emilie Autumn

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin