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Ben Jonson1 quote
He was not of an age but for all time! — Ben Jonson · 1623Horace Walpole1 quote
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. — Horace Walpole · 1764Jane Austen1 quote
Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct. — Jane Austen · 1814Laurence Olivier1 quote
Shakespeare-the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. — Laurence Olivier · 1971Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
Shakespeare...is of no age-nor, I may add, of any religion, or party, or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834