William Shakespeare Quotes

1564–1616 England

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Also known as: Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William, Shakespearean, Shakspeare

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This sorrow's heavenly;
It strikes where it doth love.

Othello (1603)

A garish flag,
To be the aim of every dangerous shot.

Richard III (1591)

Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.

Measure for Measure (1603)

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

Ah me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is!

Julius Cæsar (1599)

Nothing can you steal,
But thieves do lose it.

Give me that man
That is not passion's slave.

What demi-god
Hath come so near creation?

Think'st thou I'll endanger my soul gratis?

I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome!"

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Richard II (1595)

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.

Macbeth (1605)

Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair.

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to Nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms.

Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.

Measure for Measure (1603)

Never anger made good guard for itself.

All that glisters is not gold.

The Merchant of Venice (1596)

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