“William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”

“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

“William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?”

“William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.”

“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before.William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.”

“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”

“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”