Madness Quote by William Shakespeare

This is very midsummer madness

— William Shakespeare

“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any…

— Stephen King

“After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires, There come the mellow,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Is there any finer phrase in the English language than Midsummer Day? There are no words to touch it for conjuring. It is the…

— Deanna Raybourn

“I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, dwindled and thinned to…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby willow, sang…

— Kate Morton

“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

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

— Jasper Fforde

We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for a time…

— Claudia Jessie

“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

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

— Al Pacino

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to…

— Jonathan Miller