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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a respected English artist, writer, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most ordinarily celebrated on 23 April, which is additionally accepted to be the date he kicked the bucket in 1616. 

Shakespeare was a productive essayist during the Elizabethan and Jacobean times of British theatre. Shakespeare's plays are maybe his most suffering heritage, yet they are not all he composed. Shakespeare's poems additionally stay mainstream right up 'til the present time.

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Famous Shakespeare quotes

1. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’

2. ‘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.’

3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’

5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’

6. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

 

7. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

9. ‘A man can die but once.’

10. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’

11. ‘Frailty, thy name is a woman.’

12. ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’

13. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’

14. ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’

15. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’

17. ‘Beware the Ides of March.‘

18. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.’

19. ‘If music be the food of love play on.‘

20. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’

21. ‘The better part of valor is discretion’

22. ‘To thine own self be true.‘

23. ‘All that glisters is not gold.’

24. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’

25. ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’

26. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

27. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’

28. ‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘

29. ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

30. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘

31. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

32. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’

33. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’

34. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’

35. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’

36. ‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’

37. ‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’

 

38. ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’

39. ‘We know what we are, but know not what we maybe.’

40. ‘Off with his head!’

41. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’

42. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’

43. ‘This is very midsummer madness.’

44. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’

45. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’

46. ‘We have seen better days.’

47. ‘I  am a man more sinned against than sinning.’

48. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘

49. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’

50. ‘What light through yonder window breaks.’

Shakespeare Love quotes

1.    ‘If music be the food of love, play on’

2.    ‘There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned’

3.    ‘Speak low if you speak love’

4.    ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’

5.    ‘Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps’

6.    ‘The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired’

7.    ‘She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, and therefore to be won’

8.    ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind’

9.    ‘Hear my soul speak. Of the very the instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service’

10. ‘Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?’

11. ‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs’

12. ‘I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty’

13. ‘Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by’

14. ‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’

15. ‘What is light, if Sylvia is not seen? What is joy if Sylvia is not by?’

16. ‘Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit’

17. ‘Love sought is good, but given unsought is better’

18. ‘Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad’

19. ‘Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight’

20. ‘Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love’

21. ‘I would not wish any companion in the world but you’

22. ‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine’

23. ‘Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love’

24. ‘Lovers can do their amorous rites By their own beauties’

25. ‘Love hath made thee a tame snake’

26. ‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them’

27. ‘I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster’

28. ‘Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love’

29. ‘In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow’

30. ‘A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known’

31. ‘For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation’

32. ‘You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame’

33. ‘She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known’

34. ‘Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love’

35. ‘Men’s vows are women’s traitors’

36. ‘Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof’

37. ‘Love will not be spurred to what it loathes’

38. ‘This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet’

39. ‘To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might’

40. ‘They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them’

41. ‘His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love’

42. ‘What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!’

43. ‘Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts, and hot deeds? Why they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?’

44. ‘Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it’

45. ‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’

46. ‘Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos comes again’

47. ‘Lovers ever run before the clock’

48. ‘I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip’

49. ‘I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you”

50. ‘I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap’

51. ‘You have witchcraft in your lips’

52. ‘I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you’

53. ‘Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday’

54. ‘I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me’

Shakespeare quotes about life

1.    Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

2.    The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

3.    O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

4.    To be, or not to be,—that is the question.

5.    This day I breathed first: time comes round,
And where I did begin there shall I end;
My life is run his compass.

6.    When we are born, we cry, that we come
To this great stage of fools.

7.    I bear a charmed life.

8.    It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

9.    Why what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.

10. Thy life’s a miracle.

11. The sands are numbered that make up my life;
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

12. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend, or be rid don't.

13. Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep.

14. Life is a shuttle.

15. And a man’s life’s no more than to say ‘One’

16. Let life be short: else shame will be too long.

17. A man can die but once.

18. We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with asleep.

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

20. The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long.

21. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

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

23. So wise so young, they say, never do live long.

24. It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

25. By medicine, life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

26. There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.

27. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will
more willingly part withal: except my life, except
my life, except my life.

28. Mine honor is my life; both grow in one:
Take honor from me, and my life is done

29. Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.

30. 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.

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

32. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

33. Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die

34. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life,
So thou prevent’ st his scythe and crooked knife.

35. Life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.

Funny Shakespeare quotes

1.    Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne

2.    I wish you all the joy of the worm.

3.    Sweetest nut hath sourest rind; Such a nut is Rosalind

4.    If manhood, good manhood, be not forgotten upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring (a herring which has spawned).

5.    There live not three good men unhung in England: and one of them is fat...

6.    I must to the barber’s, monsieur; for methinks, I am marvelous hairy about the face: and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.

7.    Mine eyes smell onions.

8.    It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks, the pin-buttock, the catch-buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock.

9.    Ha! Art thou Bedlam? Dost thou thirst base Trojan, to have me fold up Parca’s fatal web? Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.

Shakespeare quotes about time

1.    Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

2.    Let every man be master of his time.

3.    Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

4.    Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

5.    I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

6.    Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

7.    What is past is prologue.

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

9.    Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

10. Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

11. Many strokes, though with a little ax, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

12. Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

13. In time we hate that which we often fear.

14. O, call back yesterday, bid time return

15. We are time's subjects, and time bids are gone.

16. There's a time for all things.

Shakespeare quotes on friendship

1.   But where there is true friendship, there needs none

2.   The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity

3.   That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids I conceal

4.   Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love

5.   Thy friendship makes us fresh

6.   Keep thy friend / Under thy own life’s key.

7.   I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends

8.   Most friendship is feigning, most loving is folly

9.   There is flattery in friendship

10.               To me, fair friend, you never can be old

Shakespeare quotes about women

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde

The woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Jules Michelet

I married beneath me - all women do.
Nancy Astor

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
Mae West

Man loves little and often, a woman much and rarely.
Giorgio Basta

Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.
Desmond Morris

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her, and foolish, that she might love him.
Anonymous

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Lois Griffin: Peter tell Chris that women are not objects!
Peter Griffin: Your mother's right Chris, listen to what it says.
Family Guy
Animated TV series

Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.
Sharon Stone

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Sigmond Freud

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age.
Voltaire

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one onshore,
To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing

Frailty, thy name is a woman!
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
The Mourning Bride

A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord.
Bible
Ecclesiasticus