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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.


— William Shakespeare


#love

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.


— William Shakespeare


#life

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.


— William Shakespeare


#eye #infection #pain #romeo-and-juliet #death

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.


— William Shakespeare


#funny

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.


— William Shakespeare


#life-lessons #loyalty #inspirational

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.


— William Shakespeare


#religion #religion

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention!


— William Shakespeare


#on-writing #inspirational

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!


— William Shakespeare


#julius-caesar #mark-antony #william-shakespeare #death

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational #truth #inspirational






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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