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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.


— William Shakespeare


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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.


— William Shakespeare


#face #false #heart #hide #know

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


— William Shakespeare


#may

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.


— William Shakespeare


#deeds #doing #good #good deed #kind

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.


— William Shakespeare


#i #ignorance #say

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.


— William Shakespeare


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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.


— William Shakespeare


#either #eyes #fathers #judgment #looked

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.


— William Shakespeare


#answer #bound #i #i am #please

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!


— William Shakespeare


#fool #had #i #make #me

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.


— William Shakespeare


#every man #hold #i #man #mine






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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