I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.



Artemus Ward on Shakespeare.

Artemus Ward at the Tomb of Shakespeare

William Shakspeare was born in Stratford in 1564. All the commentaters, Shaksperian scholars, etsetry, are agreed on this, which is about the only thing they are agreed on in regard to him, except that his mantle hasn’t fallen onto any poet or dramatist hard enough to hurt said poet or dramatist much. And there is no doubt if these commentaters and persons continner investigating Shakspeare’s career, we shall not, in doo time, know anything about it at all.

—Artemus Ward, London Punch Letters.