Genius Quote by Tallulah Bankhead

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

— Tallulah Bankhead

“Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a…

— Mark Forsyth

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.” -Mark Twain”

— Sean Patrick

“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

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don’t have anything more than you — they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed…

— Derek Rydall

“In the works of Shakespeare , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words,…

— Joseph Devlin

“Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I never worried about the genius: genius takes care of the genius in a man. My concern was always for the nobody, the man…

— Henry Miller

“I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.”

— Lance Conrad