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William Shakespeare

Read through the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare




Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.


— William Shakespeare


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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.


— William Shakespeare


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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.


— William Shakespeare


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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.


— William Shakespeare


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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.


— William Shakespeare


#devil #hast #invisible #known #let us

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.


— William Shakespeare


#furnace #heat #hot #your #yourself

Love is too young to know what conscience is.


— William Shakespeare


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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.


— William Shakespeare


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Now is the winter of our discontent.


— William Shakespeare


#now #our #winter

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.


— William Shakespeare


#suit #word






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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