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William Shakespeare

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This day I breathèd first: time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.


— William Shakespeare


#fool #inspirational #inspirational

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.


— William Shakespeare


#beauty

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love;


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

Une femme repousse parfois ce qui la charme le plus.»


— William Shakespeare


#women #love

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.


— William Shakespeare


#mercutio #pain #courage

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.


— William Shakespeare


#growth #inspirational-life #attitude

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.


— William Shakespeare


#body #language #shakespeare #sonet #wanton

Fortune love you.


— William Shakespeare


#good-fortune #luck #love

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.


— William Shakespeare


#poetic-prose #tragedy #love






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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