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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.


— William Shakespeare


#love #beauty

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.


— William Shakespeare


#grief #life #death

For trust not him that hath once broken faith


— William Shakespeare


#faith

Boldness be my friend.


— William Shakespeare


#friend #my friend

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest


— William Shakespeare


#love

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena


— William Shakespeare


#art

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.


— William Shakespeare


#both #conquest #loser #nature #neither

And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.


— William Shakespeare


#depressing #death

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)


— William Shakespeare


#expression #speaking #taciturnity #words #men

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.


— William Shakespeare


#life #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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