Defence mechanism Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

— Oscar Isaac

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of…

— Harold Bloom

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

— Martin Freeman

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“Shakespeare's state of mind”

— Virginia Woolf

“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following…

— Samuel Johnson

Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

— William Shakespear

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson

“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world,…

— Nadine Gordimer

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas