Artillery Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield,…

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

— Robert Browning

“They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot…

— Joseph Heller

Soldiers of the ploughshare aswell as soldiers of the sword.

— John Ruskin

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

— Thomas More

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

— Anna Torv

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

— Al Pacino

“From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners,…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery