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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.

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

— William Shakespeare

Fear

All Quotes by William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Imagination

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”

— William Shakespeare

Nature

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

— William Shakespeare

Life

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

— William Shakespeare

Fathersday

“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”

— William Shakespeare

Best

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

— William Shakespeare

Men

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

— William Shakespeare

Death

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

— William Shakespeare

God

“The valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

“I bear a charmed life.”

— William Shakespeare

Life

“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

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Time

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

— William Shakespeare

Fear

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Death

“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

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

— William Shakespeare

Good