Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

— Orson Welles

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

— Laurence Olivier

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

— James Broughton

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character.”

— Richard Harris

“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate…

— Ian Gregor

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly…

— T. S. Eliot

“To quote a Shakespearean cliché, repeated to death because it is so stubbornly true: “All the world’s a stage.” Work is theater. The place…

— David Whyte