Quote by Virginia Woolf

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Charles Dickens

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

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

— John Sununu

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Anonymous

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but would they have been alive for is the question…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

“Shakespeare doesn't mean: we mean by Shakespeare.”

— Terence Hawkes

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

“No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.”

— Harold Bloom

“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is…

— T.S. Eliot