#shakes

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. ↗

— John Lithgow

#me #milk #mother #shakespeare

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

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

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

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

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

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