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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 81

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

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Falstaff

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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

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Ale

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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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Better

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Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

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Attitude

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Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.

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Death

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“I can't talk, or I will throw up!”

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Inspirational

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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

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Beef

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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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Horse

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Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day:

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Complexion

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With loves light wings did I o'perch this walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. - Romeo

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Dedication

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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

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Favor

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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

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Holiday

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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

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Beauty

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“Work on, My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;”

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Fool

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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

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Hear

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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

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Country

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The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of…

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Gains

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I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not…

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Astronomy

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Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow…

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Believe

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For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and…

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Character

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My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do…

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Clouds

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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest…

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Begets

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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of…

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Darkness

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“Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful…

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Nightingale

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“Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em…

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Horse Buttered

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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as…

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Art

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A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more…

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Grief

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“Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide the conquest of thy sight; Mine eye my heart thy…

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Dear heart

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Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze…

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Age

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“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel…

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Dove

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“O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give. The rose looks fair, but fairer…

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Beauty

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Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks…

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Bears

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Memory, the warder of the brain.

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Brain

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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

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Evermore

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I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.

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Being married

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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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Character

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This above all; to thine own self be true.

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Identity

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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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Every man

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Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.

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Farewell

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Fill all thy bones with aches.

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Ache

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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)