Frank McCourt Quotes

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

Only a few things are worth a second reading—rarely are things of such enduring quality that they are read many times and live to inspire a second or third generation.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

You could argue we are a different audience today, but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.