“Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.”
C. S. Calverley
“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.”
James Matthew Barrie
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
William Shakespeare
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
Charles Darwin