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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.


— William Shakespeare


#love #lovers-quarrels #wooing #love

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.


— William Shakespeare


#sisterhood #union #dreams

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.


— William Shakespeare


#macbeth #shakespeare #ambition

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.


— William Shakespeare


#wine #love

All things are ready, if our mind be so.


— William Shakespeare


#preparation #preparedness #readiness #attitude

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?


— William Shakespeare


#theatre #food

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.


— William Shakespeare


#tragedy

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.


— William Shakespeare


#rage #imagination

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.


— William Shakespeare


#love

Love is merely a madness.


— William Shakespeare


#love






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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