English language Quote by Zoe Wanamaker

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

— Alanis Morissette

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

— Samuel Barnett

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

— Edward Hall

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?”

— Lenore Look

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language…

— Nas

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on…

— Jamey Sheridan