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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away


— William Shakespeare


#hamlet #dreams

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.


— William Shakespeare


#relationships #communication

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.


— William Shakespeare


#death #grief #death

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.


— William Shakespeare


#made #marred #marriage #marriage

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones


— William Shakespeare


#men

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.


— William Shakespeare


#truth #life

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational #art

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus


— William Shakespeare


#power #shakespeare-s-wit #forgiveness

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.


— William Shakespeare


#art

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.


— William Shakespeare


#art






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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