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

— William Shakespeare

Men

All Quotes by William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Great

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”

— William Shakespeare

Men

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

— William Shakespeare

Peace

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

— William Shakespeare

Future

“Death is a fearful thing.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

“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

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

— William Shakespeare

God

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

— William Shakespeare

Nature

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

— William Shakespeare

Patience

“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

— William Shakespeare

God

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

— William Shakespeare

Great

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

— William Shakespeare

Hope

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

— William Shakespeare

God

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

— William Shakespeare

Fear

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“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

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

— William Shakespeare

Love