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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Country United Kingdom
Born Sunday, 26 April 1564
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Quotes by William Shakespeare

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain. Uncategorized
A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. Uncategorized
By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy. Uncategorized
Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness! Uncategorized
Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. Uncategorized
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. Uncategorized
Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner? Uncategorized
That way madness lies. Uncategorized
I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning. Uncategorized
We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body. Uncategorized
Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor. Uncategorized
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! Uncategorized
How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Uncategorized
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess Uncategorized
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. Uncategorized
There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. Uncategorized
When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony. Uncategorized
I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament. Uncategorized
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend Uncategorized
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might. Uncategorized

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