(69 quotes found)
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
Charles Darwin
“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown”
Adam Walinsky
“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
“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare”
George Bernard Shaw
“We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”
Robert Wilensky
“Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.”
Robin Williams
“A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.”
Dan Devine
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt
“If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, how come AOL haven't written any Shakespeare yet?”
Andy Dingley
“Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.”
John Greenleaf Whittier