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William Shakespeare

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.


— William Shakespeare


#love

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.


— William Shakespeare


#love #sweet #uncle #funny

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.


— William Shakespeare


#screw #sticking-place #courage

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo


— William Shakespeare


#music

He kills her in her own humor.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #taming-of-the-shrew #humor

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #love

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.


— William Shakespeare


#romance #love

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.


— William Shakespeare


#love #marriage #love

A light heart lives long.


— William Shakespeare


#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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