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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Olivia: How does he love me? Viola: With adoration, with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.


— William Shakespeare


#love

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.


— William Shakespeare


#death #deeds #evil #good #legacy

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France


— William Shakespeare


#england

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.


— William Shakespeare


#love #love

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.


— William Shakespeare


#flings #friendship #love #relationships #friendship

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*


— William Shakespeare


#experience

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.


— William Shakespeare


#storytelling

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.


— William Shakespeare


#life #life

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.


— William Shakespeare


#death #maturity #wisdom #death

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!


— William Shakespeare


#puck #dreams






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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