Areas Quote by Timothy West

I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women’s speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the male orator…

— Mary Beard

I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so…

— Rick Riordan

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

— Jeanette Winterson

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

— William Shakespeare

Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees…

— Virginia Woolf

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this…

— Rhys Ifans

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

— Umberto Eco

I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of…

— Amos Oz

What light through yonder window breaks?

— William Shakespeare

“Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as “breake that deer, leach that brawn,…

— Francine Segan

I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just for the…

— Virginia Henley