Sonnets Quotes

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

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.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

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

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; ... And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.

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.

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

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

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

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

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is.

The magic word 'Shakespeare' always freezes you in your chair.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.