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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.


— William Shakespeare


#self-responsibility #timidity #responsibility

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.


— William Shakespeare


#romance #unrequited-love #food

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.


— William Shakespeare


#age

We know what we are, but not what we may be.


— William Shakespeare


#identity #possibilities #being

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.


— William Shakespeare


#think

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.


— William Shakespeare


#empty #hell #hell is #here

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.


— William Shakespeare


#woman

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #nothing

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.


— William Shakespeare


#conscience

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.


— William Shakespeare


#faith






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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