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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We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
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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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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
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Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at I, i)
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If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at IV, i)
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It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Friar Francis at IV, i)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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'Tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
For daws to peck at.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her for having pitied them.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
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Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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