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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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By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!—I afear'd of him!—A very weak monster!—The man i' the moon!—A most poor, credulous monster!—Well drawn, monster, in good sooth!

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing;
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

What trade are you?
Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

How does your patient, doctor?
Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies.

Macbeth (1605)

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep.

Macbeth (1605)

What would you have? your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.

What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke, and bounce.

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banish'd from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!
As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those
Who worship dirty gods.

Cymbeline (1611)

What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!

Macbeth (1605)

Why, who cries out on pride,
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster!

King Lear (1608)

All is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.

Henry V (1599)

Are yet two Romans living such as these?
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!

Julius Cæsar (1599)

I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew!
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.

This is the fairy-land; O spite of spites!
We talk with goblins, owls and sprites.

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Othello (1603)

Blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

To stand against the deep, dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning?

King Lear (1608)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.