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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




To weep is to make less the depth of grief.


— William Shakespeare


#grief #sorrow #shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.


— William Shakespeare


#laughter #mirth #old #wrinkles

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)


— William Shakespeare


#poetry #love

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.


— William Shakespeare


#romeo-and-juliet #values #waste #love

Brevity is the soul of wit.


— William Shakespeare


#soul #wit

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.


— William Shakespeare


#dark-plans #darkness #stealth #darkness

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.


— William Shakespeare


#classic #murder #wit #kill

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.


— William Shakespeare


#teen-suicide #tragedy #teen

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.


— William Shakespeare


#men






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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