Gene Weingarten Quotes

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

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

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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?

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.

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.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

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

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

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.

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.