(104 quotes found)
“I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent”
Christopher Isherwood
“I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.”
Howard Barker
“What a man misses mostly in heaven is company”
Mark Twain
“When they hear it's from the same era as Shakespeare, they think it's going to be all this very difficult language. When they read it, they really enjoy it. It's a very funny book.”
Stewart King
“Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.”
William Shakespeare
“It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in fact . . . I do not profess to write better plays.”
George Bernard Shaw
“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his”
“Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.”
C. S. Calverley
“Give your sorrow words. The grief that does not speak builds up softly in the heart, and bids it break.”
“[Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of] revelations ... I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look in the eye when they come to speak to me how about the Earl of Oxford or Marlowe really wrote the plays. She spoke rationally, and it's an intelligently readable book, but it floats way above the facts, as I told her.”
