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“Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?”
“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”
“Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.”
“Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.”
Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version
“Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!”
“Shakespeare was one in a million. That makes you pretty unique, if there's only one million people.
But when there's a hundred million people, then being one in a million means there are 100 people just as talented as you.
In a country of 300 million people, there are 300 people like you. And in a world of seven billion people, you're competing with 7000 other people who are every bit as good as you. I wonder if Shakespeare would have gotten famous if he lived today, and had to compete with 7000 other Shakespeares.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.”
“Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.”
“Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.”
“Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.”
Source: Essays
“Shakespeare will not allow Falstaff to die upon stage. We see and hear the deaths of Hamlet, Cleopatra, Antony, Othello, and Lear. Iago is led away to die silently under torture. Macbeth dies offstage but he goes down fighting. Falstaff dies singing the Twenty-third Psalm, smiling upon his fingertips, playing with flowers, and crying aloud to God three or four times. That sounds more like pain than prayer.
We do not want Sir John Falstaff to die. And of course he does not. He is life itself.”
Source: Falstaff: Give Me Life
“Shakespeare, with his wisdom and creative ability, enhanced by his brilliant rhetoric, created works truly full of aphorisms and memorable phrases capable of distilling profound insights into human nature, ethics, politics, love, suffering, in practice, into the whole existence.”
Source: William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown
“Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.”
Source: Reason and Analysis
“Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.”
“Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.”
“Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.”
“Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.”
“Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.”
“Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.”
“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”
“Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.”
“Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Shakespeare wrote sculduddery because he liked it, and for no other reason; his sensuality is the measure of his vitality.”
Source: Lysistrata
“Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.”
“Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.”
“Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.”
“Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.”
“Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.”
“Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.”
“Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'”
“Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.”
“Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.”
“Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.”
“Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.”
“Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.”
Source: The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain
“Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.”
“Shakespeare, I come!”
“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.”
“Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."”
“Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.”
“Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.”
Source: Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject
“Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
“Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love.”
“Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays