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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.

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

All Quotes by William Shakespeare

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

— William Shakespeare

Great

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

— William Shakespeare

Happiness

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

— William Shakespeare

Experience

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

“The valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

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

— William Shakespeare

Nature

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

“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

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

— William Shakespeare

Life

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

— William Shakespeare

Faith

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

— William Shakespeare

Trust

“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Men

“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”

— William Shakespeare

Nature

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

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

— William Shakespeare

Fathersday

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

— William Shakespeare

Nature