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William Shakespeare

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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.


— William Shakespeare


#nothing #patience #pattern #say #will

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.


— William Shakespeare


#false #got #idle #imposition #lost

Speak low, if you speak love.


— William Shakespeare


#low #speak #you

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.


— William Shakespeare


#forget #men #sometimes

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.


— William Shakespeare


#daughter #dead #dislike #father #i

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.


— William Shakespeare


#fit #hath #himself #man #moved

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.


— William Shakespeare


#bosom #doth #go #heart #knock

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.


— William Shakespeare


#good night #i #morrow #night #parting

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.


— William Shakespeare


#die #enough #fewer #greater #honor

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.


— William Shakespeare


#kin #makes #touch #whole #world






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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