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William Shakespeare

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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.


— William Shakespeare


#books #brooks #everything #exempt #finds

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.


— William Shakespeare


#every #every man #few #give #man

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?


— William Shakespeare


#die #laugh #poison #revenge #shall

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.


— William Shakespeare


#lady #much #protest #too #too much

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.


— William Shakespeare


#head #his #jewel #like #precious

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.


— William Shakespeare


#husbands #maids #nothing #them #want

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.


— William Shakespeare


#grow #into #look #me #say

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?


— William Shakespeare


#degrees #did #ever #heal #how

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.


— William Shakespeare


#cowards #death #deaths #die #many

Men's vows are women's traitors!


— William Shakespeare


#traitors #vows #women






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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