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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.


— William Shakespeare


#light #stars #death

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


— William Shakespeare


#love #permanence #sonnet- #life

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.


— William Shakespeare


#romeo-and-juliet #love

Lord, what fools these mortals be!


— William Shakespeare


#elizabethan #robin-goodfellow #dreams

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #die

If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...


— William Shakespeare


#love

thus with a kiss I die


— William Shakespeare


#romance #die

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.


— William Shakespeare


#life

Though she be but little, she is fierce!


— William Shakespeare


#dreams

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.


— William Shakespeare


#love






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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