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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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No, I'll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep.

King Lear (1608)

When I was stamp'd, some coiner with his tools
Made me a counterfeit.

Cymbeline (1611)

But to my mind, though I am native here,
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

Nay, had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.

Macbeth (1605)

We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind
That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff,
And good from bad find no partition.

I thought upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen.

Henry V (1599)

But that I am forbid,
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul.

I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Have so incens'd that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.

Macbeth (1605)

Speak no more:
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.

Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstacy.

Macbeth (1605)

Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:
If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
By giving love, your sorrow and my grief were both extermin'd.

The very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt.

Henry V (1599)

And Nature does require
Her times of preservation, which perforce
I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
Must give my tendance to.

Henry VIII (1613)

What trade art thou? answer me directly.
A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed sir, a mender of bad soles.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer.

These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times.

Henry VIII (1613)

My salad days;
When I was green in judgment.

When I do count the clock that tells the time

Why, man, she is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.

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