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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 120

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

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Agony

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

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Devil

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I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful

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Beautiful

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“But rather reason thus with reason fetter: Love sough is good but given unsought is better.”

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Love

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We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

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Fret

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O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

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Knot

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“That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”

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Anger

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Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

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Lips

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“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,…

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Acting

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O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,…

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Adoration

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I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the…

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Bounds

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“Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary…

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Death

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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the…

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Be a man

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Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division,…

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Division

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“Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots:…

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Worm

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Thou almost mak'st me waverin my faith To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of…

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Faith

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Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.

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Bears

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God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.

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Conquer

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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

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Deceit

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“The miserable have no other medicine But only hope: I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.”

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Hope

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“This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.”

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Death

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“A fool of thee: depart. APEMANTUS I love thee better now than e'er I did. TIMON I hate thee worse.”

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Better now

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He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.

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Distracted

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Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

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Damned

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“Lay these Bones in an unworthy Urn, Tombless, with no Remembrance over them.”

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Dead

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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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Appearance

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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

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Grief

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And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

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If you love me

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By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

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Comets

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O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that…

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Bad dream

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“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

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Banish

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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

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Estates

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For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.

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Constantly

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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

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Clearness

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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Comfort

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Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

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Berries

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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

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Art

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Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

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Done

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“Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!”

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Drown

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“Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.”

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Dogs of war

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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)