Shakspeare Quotes

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

William H. Prescott

More Shakspeare Quotes

I keep saying, Shakspeare , Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Matthew Arnold

— Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough (ca. 6 December 1847).

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Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.

samuel johnson

— October 19, 1769, p. 170.

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