I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays — it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In this they invert the megalomaniacal equation and make themselves not the elect, but the superior of the elect. Barred from composing Shakespeare’s plays by a regrettable temporal accident, they, in the fantasy of most every editor, accept the mantle of primum mobile, consign the (falsely named) creator to oblivion, and turn to the adulation of the crowd for their deed of discovery and insight — so much more thoughtful and intellectual than the necessarily sloppy work of the writer.

As a child in North London it never crossed my mind that I would ever play the Wicked Witch of the East.

A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

The trouble with Goodreads is that they never authenticate these quotations of famous people.

The apostle denies that anyone actually knows Christ, who has not learned to put off the old man, corrupt with deceitful lusts, and to put on Christ.