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William Shakespeare

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The More I Rest The More I Go In VAIN


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.


— William Shakespeare


#hotspur #time #death

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?


— William Shakespeare


#feminism #othello #equality

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.


— William Shakespeare


#reason #love

The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.


— William Shakespeare


#beauty

Hamlet: Is this a prologue or a posy of a ring? Ophelia: Tis brief, my lord Hamlet: As woman's love.


— William Shakespeare


#love

Violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which are destroyed at the first kiss.


— William Shakespeare


#lovers #love

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love. Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art! Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!


— William Shakespeare


#love #shakespeare #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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