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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...


— William Shakespeare


#balcony-scene #juliet #love #plays #romeo

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


— William Shakespeare


#relationships #communication

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

Swift as shadow, short as any dream


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

For she had eyes and chose me.


— William Shakespeare


#eyes #looks #love #love-story #lovers

Put money in thy purse.


— William Shakespeare


#money

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.


— William Shakespeare


#humor

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.


— William Shakespeare


#sorrow #tears #water #death

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #theatre #titus-andronicus #life

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.


— William Shakespeare


#king-lear #freedom






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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