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William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His words have become woven into everyday speech across the world.

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“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

Time

All Quotes by 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

Good

“For I can raise no money by vile means.”

— William Shakespeare

Money

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

— William Shakespeare

Time

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare

Food

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

— William Shakespeare

Great

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

Fathersday

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

— William Shakespeare

Imagination

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

— William Shakespeare

Nature

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

— William Shakespeare

Good

“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”

— William Shakespeare

Trust

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

— William Shakespeare

Death

“The valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

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

— William Shakespeare

God

“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

Good

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

— William Shakespeare

Good

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

Time

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare

Good