Burghley Quotes

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

“I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.”

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

“I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.”