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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.


— William Shakespeare


#prepare #shed #tears #them #you

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.


— William Shakespeare


#lawless #make #their #wills

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!


— William Shakespeare


#hide #him #man #may #outward

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.


— William Shakespeare


#mountains #our #peace #rocky #rocky mountains

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.


— William Shakespeare


#brings #fortune #some #steered

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.


— William Shakespeare


#does #grace #i #i do #more

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.


— William Shakespeare


#i #like #mind #not fair #terms

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?


— William Shakespeare


#live performance #many #outlive #performance #should

They do not love that do not show their love.


— William Shakespeare


#show #their

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.


— William Shakespeare


#fall #one thing #tempted #thing #tis






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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