Communication Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

— Kelli O'Hara

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

— Ray Fearon

“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.”

— Samuel Johnson

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he…

— Sam Wanamaker

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

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that…

— Joseph Devlin

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than…

— Thomas Carlyle

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look at my women with a Shakespearean element too - the variant of emotions they are capable of - it's not all completely…

— Miles Aldridge

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

— Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

— Joyce Carol Oates