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William Shakespeare

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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)


— William Shakespeare


#macbeth #acting

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?


— William Shakespeare


#insult

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

The object of Art is to give life a shape.


— William Shakespeare


#art

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.


— William Shakespeare


#grief #loss #mourning #sadness #sorrow

Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her.


— William Shakespeare


#sonnet #love

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.


— William Shakespeare


#conscience

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.


— William Shakespeare


#light

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.


— William Shakespeare


#hate #often #time #which






About William Shakespeare

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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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