457 Quotes About Shakespeare

The ‘words’ have the power to kill! They are similar to destructive weapons such as, knives, pistols, bombs and so on.

The ‘words’ are so powerful that anyone can drive others mad by using them cunningly. If someone commits suicide after being so hurt by someone else’s words, then it does not remain ‘suicide’ and turns into a ‘murder’!

It's commonplace to describe theater—the activity underpinning the very existence of this book—as a collaborative artform in which the author's words are shaped, embodied and adapted by actors, directors, producers, designers, musicians and above all, audiences.

It has only been four hundred years since Shakespeare, and this is the state of things? Insanity, complete insanity.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

For every species of book person, the idea of Shakespeare’s library—his personal collection of manuscripts, books, letters and other papers—is enticing, totemic, a subject of wonder. How did he write? Who inspired him? Who appalled him? To know Shakespeare’s books is to know Shakespeare the author.

If Shakespeare was another Barrington—just an allonymous brand, just a gormless frontman—then there had to be a Machiavelli in the background—a cunning architect of an elaborate bibliographical hoax. How could such a thing be done? And what kind of person could pull it off?

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.