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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.


— William Shakespeare


#death #heaven #love #pain #romeo-and-juliet

This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.


— William Shakespeare


#death

...Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report...


— William Shakespeare


#cleopatra #love

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!


— William Shakespeare


#romance #inspirational

So quick bright things come to confusion.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.


— William Shakespeare


#scene-iv #nature

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.


— William Shakespeare


#strokes #virtue

It is a wise father that knows his own child.


— William Shakespeare


#child #father #his #knows #own

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.


— William Shakespeare


#seldom #spent #vain #words

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.


— William Shakespeare


#desire #having #sin






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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