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Quotes about Shakespeare

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James BarrieI know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)
Are the commentators on "Hamlet" really mad, or only pretending to be.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Robert GravesThe remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834)
He is of no age, nor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
- (on Shakespeare)
Voltaire
(1694 - 1778)
"Hamlet" is a coarse and barbarous play . . . One might think the work is a product of a drunken savages imagination.
William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)
Exit, pursued by a bear.
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