Gulzar Quotes

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

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

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

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

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

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

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

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 is universal.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.