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William Shakespeare

1564-1616 ,  English poet & playwright
William ShakespeareEnglish poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
His extant works consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems.

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There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.

—  Romeo & Juliet


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

—  As You Like It


Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

—  Macbeth


Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

—  Julius Caesar


God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

—  Hamlet


All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.

—  As You Like It


If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

—  The Merchant of Venice


To be, or not to be: that is the question.

—  Hamlet


Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

—  Hamlet


There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

—  Hamlet


Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.

—  All's Well That Ends Well


Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

—  Henry IV


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

—  Measure for Measure


The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

—  Julius Caesar


The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

—  Henry VI


The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

—  Hamlet


As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.

—  King Lear


So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

—  Henry IV


Brevity is the soul of wit.

—  Hamlet


Cry “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war.

—  Julius Caesar


Delays have dangerous ends.

—  Henry IV


I am one who loved not wisely but too well.

—  Othello


I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

—  Hamlet


My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

—  Hamlet


We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

—  The Tempest


When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

—  Hamlet


Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall with our English dead.

—  Henry V


Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed.

(Ophelia to Hamlet)


Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.

—  Twelfth Night


But love is blind, and lovers cannot see.

—  The Merchant of Venice


Can one desire too much of a good thing?

—  As You Like It


For ever and a day.

—  As You Like It


Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

—  Hamlet


If music be the food of love, play on.

—  Twelfth Night


Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

—  Hamlet


Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

—  Much Ado about Nothing


Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

—  Measure for Measure


There 's daggers in men's smiles. Macbeth

    The worst is not, So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

    —  King Lear


    There 's daggers in men's smiles.

    —  Macbeth


    Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

    —  Henry IV


    We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

    —  Hamlet


    Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- it’s everything except what it is!

    —  Romeo and Juliet


    There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat, and grows old.

    (the fat one was Falstaff)

    —  Henry IV


    It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.

    —  Henry IV


    A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

    —  Richard III


    Action is eloquence.

    —  Coriolanus


    All that glisters is not gold.

    —  The Merchant of Venice


    Beware the ides of March.

    —  Julius Caesar


    But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

    —  Julius Caesar


    Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

    —  Julius Caesar


    For you and I are past our dancing days.

    —  Romeo and Juliet


    I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.

    —  Henry V


    Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

    —  The Tempest


    Now is the winter of our discontent.

    —  King Richard III


    Off with his head!

    —  King Richard III


    Small things make base men proud.

    —  Henry VI


    Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

    —  Henry IV


    There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

    —  Hamlet


    True is it that we have seen better days.

    —  As You Like It


    What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

    —  Romeo and Juliet


    Why, then the world 's mine oyster.

    —  Merry Wives of Windsor


    Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

    —  Julius Caesar


    That you have such a February face,
    So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

    —  Much Ado About Nothing


    Journeys end in lovers meeting.

    —  Twelfth Night



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