Quotes by William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
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That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion That in the natures of their lords rebel, Being oil t...

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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...

William Shakespeare

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.

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And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

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Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

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When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

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But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.

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I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

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Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, show nothing but confusion:

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But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

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All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

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Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills

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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

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Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:

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If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

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Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Shakespeare
  • DescriptionEnglish playwright and poet
  • AliasesShakespeare; The Bard; The Bard of Avon
  • Born1564
  • DiedMay 3, 1616
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Poet; Stage Actor; Writer
  • WorksHamlet; Romeo And Juliet; As You Like It; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Shakespeare's Sonnets