Shakespeare Criticism Quotes

#1. The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Oh Paris
From red to green all the yellow dies away
Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles
The window opens like an orange
The beautiful fruit of light
("Windows")

Guillaume Apollinaire

#3. It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

Herb Alpert

#4. Men from children nothing differ.

William Shakespeare

#5. One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

Marilyn Monroe

#6. At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.

James Lankford

#7. His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

William Shakespeare

#8. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

William Shakespeare

#9. A girl? Her mother looked at her, curiously, as if the word were unknown to her; ancient and puzzling as an artifact behind a glass encasement.

Abby Slovin

#10. How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

George Bernard Shaw

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

Harold Bloom

#12. Capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.

Brian K. Vaughan

#13. 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 only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]

William Hazlitt

#14. Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Harold Bloom

#15. Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana