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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.


— William Shakespeare


#humor #food

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo


— William Shakespeare


#love

No legacy is so rich as honesty.


— William Shakespeare


#legacy #rich

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.


— William Shakespeare


#jealousy #jealousy

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!


— William Shakespeare


#irony #wonder #mankind

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.


— William Shakespeare


#kindness #cruelty

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational #life #tragic #inspirational

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.


— William Shakespeare


#hours #late #minute #soon #than

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.


— William Shakespeare


#dreams






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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