Quote Origin: Now We Sit Through Shakespeare in Order to Recognize the Quotations

Orson Welles? Oscar Wilde? James Aswell? Richard Lederer? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The influence of William Shakespeare’s works on the English language has been enormous; consider the following phrases: To thine own self be trueIt was Greek to meBrevity is the soul of witTo be, or not to beNot a mouse stirring The cultural …