Darling Quote by Tallulah Bankhead

“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

One genius has made many clever artists.

— Martial

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

— Horace Walpole

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where…

— Eric Weiner

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species…

— Fred Hoyle

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

— Raoul Peck

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

In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare…

— Charlie Chaplin

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel