2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
4/23/1564 - 4/23/1616
Also Known As:
Shakespeare
The Bard
Shaxper
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, 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". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, two epitaphs on a man named John Combe, one epitaph on Elias James, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
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What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gobbo at II, ii)
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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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It is engendered in the eyes;
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at III, ii), a song
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So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at IV, i)
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We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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How far that little candle throws its beams;
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at V, i)
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