Bassam: Feeling hydrated? Never had a bath before. [shakes the water off] Lost 2 pounds in dirt alone.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon
The author of Lear remains unshaken
Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton
What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world.
Oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Richard II by William Shakespeare

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

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

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.