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

— William Shakespeare

Imagination

All Quotes by William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Life

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

— William Shakespeare

Great

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

— William Shakespeare

God

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

— William Shakespeare

Death

“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”

— William Shakespeare

Men

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

— William Shakespeare

Nature

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Courage

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

God

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

— William Shakespeare

Good

“The valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

— William Shakespeare

Good

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

— William Shakespeare

Age

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

— William Shakespeare

Love

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

— William Shakespeare

Future

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

— William Shakespeare

Art