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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.


— William Shakespeare


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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?


— William Shakespeare


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Et tu, Brute?


— William Shakespeare


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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.


— William Shakespeare


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If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.


— William Shakespeare


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Sweets to the sweet.


— William Shakespeare


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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.


— William Shakespeare


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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.


— William Shakespeare


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Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.


— William Shakespeare


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What's past is prologue.


— William Shakespeare


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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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