Average Quote by Virginia Woolf

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation,…

— George Edward Woodberry

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

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have…

— Michelle Dockery

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

— John Sununu

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will…

— Allan Bloom

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current…

— John Dos Passos

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done…

— Raymond Chandler

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall