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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The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.

Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.

The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,
And ready mounted are they to spit forth
Their iron indignation ’gainst your walls.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?

O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That over blotted paper!

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.

And now, in madness,
Being full of supper and distempering draughts,
Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come
To start my quiet.

Othello (1603)

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Macbeth (1605)

* * * the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion, than to start a hare.

Beauty is a witch,
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar.

But I'll report it
Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles.

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

King John (1598)

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing.

Why, there they are, both bakèd in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

The nimble gunner
With linstock now the devilish cannon touches.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.

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