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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
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More quotes by William Shakespeare
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
William Shakespeare
The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75
William Shakespeare
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
William Shakespeare
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare
I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
William Shakespeare
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
William Shakespeare
It is war's prize to take all vantages And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
William Shakespeare
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain If lost, why then a grievous labour won However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
William Shakespeare
Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law 'twill hardly come out.
William Shakespeare
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
William Shakespeare
I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
William Shakespeare
Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.
William Shakespeare
O the world is but a word were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!
William Shakespeare
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
William Shakespeare
Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
William Shakespeare
Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night.
William Shakespeare
Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
William Shakespeare
You have witchcraft in your lips
William Shakespeare
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
William Shakespeare
