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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.


— William Shakespeare


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I was adored once too.


— William Shakespeare


#i #once #too

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.


— William Shakespeare


#hours #make #pleasure #seem #short

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.


— William Shakespeare


#content #crown #enjoy #kings #seldom

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.


— William Shakespeare


#bitter #eyes #happiness #how #into

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.


— William Shakespeare


#himself #knows #man #thinks #wise

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.


— William Shakespeare


#achieve #born #greatness #some #them

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.


— William Shakespeare


#ages #being #entrances #exits #his

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.


— William Shakespeare


#full #fury #heard #his #hour

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.


— William Shakespeare


#be true #canst #day #false #follow






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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