Quotes About Shakespeare's Comedies

#1. I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

Elizabeth Banks

#2. sweeter than joy itself, for the heart of the laugh was love.

George MacDonald

#3. As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX.

Joseph Pearce

#4. Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

#5. I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

George Hickenlooper

#6. Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

Leonard Maltin

#8. I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Elizabeth Banks

#9. A man who is smart may have an abundance of knowledge, but a man who is wise knows where to find an abundance of knowledge. I myself chose the latter."---Backwoods

Backwoods

#10. The great religions are also, and tragically, sources of ceaseless and unnecessary suffering. They are impediments to the grasp of reality needed to solve most social problems in the real world.

Edward O. Wilson