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 house, if it be not a bawd’s house, it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.

Measure for Measure (1603)

The barber's man hath been seen with him, and the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-balls.

Women will love her that she is a woman
More worth than any man; men, that she is
The rarest of all women.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

The Tempest (1611)

Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano:
A stage where every man must play a part.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; Th' effect doth operate another way.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.

Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?

There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.

Henry V (1599)

Your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lantern.

He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

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