#shakes

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#force #genius #his #human #insignificance

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#famous #get #hogwash #i #interest

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#got #i #i can #myself #need

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#come #cows #discovery #home #i

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#depends #important #life #name #only

You speak an infinite deal of nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #nothing

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#day #eat #five #i #meals