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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.


— William Shakespeare


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There's place and means for every man alive.


— William Shakespeare


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O, had I but followed the arts!


— William Shakespeare


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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.


— William Shakespeare


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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.


— William Shakespeare


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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.


— William Shakespeare


#confounds #deed #us

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.


— William Shakespeare


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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.


— William Shakespeare


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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.


— William Shakespeare


#come #cry #fools #great #stage

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.


— William Shakespeare


#cost #encounter #fashion #world #you






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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