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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.


— William Shakespeare


#forgiveness #ice #sin #virtue #forgiveness

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.


— William Shakespeare


#boasting #killing #rage #threats #warning

Exit pursued by a bear." [STAGE DIRECTIONS in The Winter's Tale (III, iii)]


— William Shakespeare


#humor #stage-directions #humor

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.


— William Shakespeare


#love

He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.


— William Shakespeare


#love

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.


— William Shakespeare


#art

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.


— William Shakespeare


#love

A young man married is a man that's marred.


— William Shakespeare


#matrimony #marriage

Let every man be master of his time.


— William Shakespeare


#life #self-determination #time #life






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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