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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.


— William Shakespeare


#brain #humor #macbeth #shakespeare #thinking

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills


— William Shakespeare


#death #death

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.


— William Shakespeare


#drama #english-literature #drama

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.


— William Shakespeare


#death

Done to death by slanderous tongue


— William Shakespeare


#eulogy #insults-and-slander #death

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.


— William Shakespeare


#evil #death

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)


— William Shakespeare


#poetry #love

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare-s-wisdom #love

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #william-shakespeare #love






About William Shakespeare

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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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