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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.


— William Shakespeare


#witty

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.


— William Shakespeare


#insult #pompey #funny

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.


— William Shakespeare


#love #love

... and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days...


— William Shakespeare


#reason #dreams

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?


— William Shakespeare


#to-remember #funny

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.


— William Shakespeare


#love-story #thrillers #love

Do you know me, my lord?' Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.


— William Shakespeare


#humor

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.


— William Shakespeare


#death

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.


— William Shakespeare


#capulet #juliet #romeo #art

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.


— William Shakespeare


#time #men






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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