2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
4/23/1564 - 4/23/1616
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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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'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at III, i)
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With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at III, i)
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Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, iii)
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, v)
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, V)
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One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at IV, vii)
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Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at V, i)
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To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at IV, v)
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If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Julius Caesar (Casca at I, ii)
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Proverbs
Quotes, by William Shakespeare , Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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