Michael Dirda Quotes

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

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.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.