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William Shakespeare

(1564–1616) Stage Actor Kingdom of England

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William Shakespeare was a stage actor from the Kingdom of England, best known for Hamlet.

Quick Facts About William Shakespeare

Born: April 1, 1564
Died: May 3, 1616
Nationality: Kingdom of England
Profession: Stage Actor
Notable works: Hamlet
Known for: Othello, Hamlet, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest
Spouse: Anne Hathaway

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 117

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

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Crossed

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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

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Sayings

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“In cases of Defense ‘tis best to weigh The Enemy more mighty than he seems.”

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Defense

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a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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Dedication

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Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

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Ale

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It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

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Carriages

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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

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Begets

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A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

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Being a grandma

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The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and…

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Change

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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

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Boundless

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Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a…

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Alliance

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“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,…

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Beauty

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“Then he is dead? Ross: Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow Must not be measured by the worth,…

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Macbeth

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A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels…

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Beloved

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Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets…

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Bloody

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“I will go tell him of Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence…

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Expense

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Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

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Acquaintance

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To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

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Anger

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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

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Betray

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“A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

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Choking

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Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

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Beard

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“There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.”

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Fear

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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

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Book

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He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

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Cake

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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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Desire

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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

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Blow

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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

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Deeds

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O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

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Brother

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The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

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Bird

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From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

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Band

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I Love thee, I love but thee. With a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold, and the stars…

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Cold

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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

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Cunning

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

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Concept of time

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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

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Fall

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“Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

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Ambition

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It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

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Break

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Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.

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Eye

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Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

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Best criminal minds

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East, west, north, south, or like a school broke up, Each hurries toward his homeand sporting-place.

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East

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Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I…

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Astronomy

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William Shakespeare by topic

Love (897) Inspirational (602) Men (463) Death (285) Time (256) Life (192) Nature (184) Heart (179) Eye (179) Ifs (152) Thee (150) World (144) May (143) Art (141) Should (125) Heaven (124) Flower (121) Love you (118) Sweet (117) Grief (116) Giving (112) Memorable (110) Friendship (109) Speak (107) Night (105)