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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time.


— William Shakespeare


#nights #passage-of-time #time #dreams

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!


— William Shakespeare


#love

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.


— William Shakespeare


#fear #rest #sleep #death

Observe him, for the love of mockery


— William Shakespeare


#twelfth-night #humor

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?


— William Shakespeare


#beauty

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.


— William Shakespeare


#good #hanging #many #marriage #prevents

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...


— William Shakespeare


#quotes #men

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.


— William Shakespeare


#love #speed #humor

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't


— William Shakespeare


#love

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth brings That then, I scorn to change my state with kings.


— William Shakespeare


#romance #shakespeare #change






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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