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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon, than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.


— William Shakespeare


#love

What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?


— William Shakespeare


#sandman #tempest #dreams

she shall scant show well that now shows best.


— William Shakespeare


#jealousy #funny

Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.


— William Shakespeare


#love

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.


— William Shakespeare


#love #lysander #dreams

Afore me! It is so very late, That we may call it early by and by.


— William Shakespeare


#funny #late-to-bed #funny

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.


— William Shakespeare


#man #power #wise #love

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that; we this way.


— William Shakespeare


#love-s-labour-s-lost #love

Macbeth:"'If we should fail?" Lady Macbeth: "We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #courage

Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational #spirits #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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