Mistaken Shakespeare Quotes

#1. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Samuel Johnson

#2. When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#3. When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

Vera Farmiga

#4. Dandyism is a variety of genius.

William Hazlitt

#5. The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

Douglas Booth

#7. Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society.

Nicki Elson

#8. Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

Rick Perlstein

#9. Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.

Jules Verne