William Shakespeare Quotes

United Kingdom, Poet
April 26, 1564 – April, 23, 1616.

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Also known as Playwright, Actor, Dramatist

For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.

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- Men
- Vices
Every why has a wherefore.

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- Purpose

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

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- Men
- May
- Creation
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

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- Life
- Time
- Running
Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?

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- Rich
- Praise
Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

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- Heart
- Eye
- Tears
Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

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- Soul
- Wells
- Saved
O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

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- Love
- Art
- Spirit

Live how we can, yet die we must.

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- Death
- Dies
Be not afraid of greatness.

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- Life
- Greatness
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

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- Believe
- Men
- Christian
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

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- Play
- Games
- Scene
Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

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- Reason
- Mad
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

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- Boast

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

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- Men
- Book
- Poor
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

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- World
- Lying
- Lord
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

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- Hours
- Bed
- Delight
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.

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- Joy
- Heaven
- Virtue
Scratching could not make it worse, an't were such a face as yours were.

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- Faces
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

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- Men
- inspirational
- Fate

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

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- Men
- Thinking
- Change
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

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- Men
- Enemy
- Devil
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

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- Man
- Perfect
- Poverty
I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

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- Answers
- Judgment