William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright.

Shakespeare is considered one of the best English writers of all time. The genres of his plays varied over his life. His early works were either histories, like Richard III and Henry IV, or comedies. Shakepeare is known for creating the style of tragicomedy. A good example of this is his romantic play A Midsummer Night's Dream. His later plays were mostly tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Macbeth. Shakespeare was renowned while he was still alive. His tragedy Julius Caesar was the first play to be performed in the famous Globe Theatre.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.William Shakespeare

But men are men the best sometimes forget.William Shakespeare

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

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.William Shakespeare

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

I bear a charmed life.William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.William Shakespeare

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare

Speak low, if you speak love.William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.William Shakespeare

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

The golden age is before us, not behind us.William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.William Shakespeare

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