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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.

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

— William Shakespeare

Time

All Quotes by William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Money

“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

“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.”

— William Shakespeare

Men

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

— William Shakespeare

God

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

Future

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Men

“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”

— William Shakespeare

Great

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

— William Shakespeare

Age

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

“The valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

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

— William Shakespeare

God

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

— William Shakespeare

Faith

“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”

— William Shakespeare

Nature

“Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

— William Shakespeare

Life

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

— William Shakespeare

Great

“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”

— William Shakespeare

Courage

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

— William Shakespeare

Good