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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.


— William Shakespeare


#face #given #god #make #you

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.


— William Shakespeare


#curse #fly #god #heaven #ignorance

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.


— William Shakespeare


#banishment #deadly #love #love is #self

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.


— William Shakespeare


#bad #either #makes #nothing #thinking

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.


— William Shakespeare


#both #cry #father #gives #his

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.


— William Shakespeare


#fool #foolish #than #wit #witty

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.


— William Shakespeare


#come #down #drink #gentlemen #hope

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.


— William Shakespeare


#dull #ear #life #man #tale

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.


— William Shakespeare


#guilty #haunts #mind #suspicion

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.


— William Shakespeare


#cannot #endure #his #loves #man






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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