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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I’ll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

Share the advice betwixt you: if both gain, all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
And is enough for both.

An hour before the worshipp'd sun
Peer'd from the golden window of the east.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange;
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.

Othello (1603)

But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.

Macbeth (1605)

That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.

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

A testy babe will scratch the nurse,
And presently all humbled kiss the rod.

Now let it work: Mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt.

For slander lives upon succession,
Forever housed where it gets possession.

That aged ears play truant at his tales
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

This token serveth for a flag of truce
Betwixt ourselves and our followers.

Do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

Richard II (1595)

All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
Are spectacled to see him.

The ladies call him sweet;
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet.

You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve
Humbly call'd mistress.

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