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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.


— William Shakespeare


#wisdom

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.


— William Shakespeare


#few #love #none #wrong

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.


— William Shakespeare


#friendship

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.


— William Shakespeare


#night

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.


— William Shakespeare


#sonnet- #beauty

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.


— William Shakespeare


#food

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.


— William Shakespeare


#love #music #food

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.


— William Shakespeare


#love

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.


— William Shakespeare


#hold #our #ourselves #stars






About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quotes




Did you know about William Shakespeare?

According to Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro in Julius Caesar "the various strands of politics character inwardness contemporary events even Shakespeare's own reflections on the act of writing began to infuse each other". In 1598 the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. Many of his plays were publiWilliam Shakespeared in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

In the 20th century his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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