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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Men in rage strike those that wish them best.


— William Shakespeare


#rage #anger

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.


— William Shakespeare


#imagination #lovers #madmen #reason #dreams

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #dreams

If music be the food of love, play on.


— William Shakespeare


#food #love #play

Beware the ides of March.


— William Shakespeare


#foreshadowing #julius-ceasar #warning #shakespeare

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.


— William Shakespeare


#jealousy #mockery #monsters #vices #jealousy

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?


— William Shakespeare


#love

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.


— William Shakespeare


#nature #dreams

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.


— William Shakespeare


#fools #newborn #stage #shakespeare

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.


— William Shakespeare


#insult #insult






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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