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List of William Shakespeare Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 4020 inspiring quotes by William Shakespeare.

About William Shakespeare

  • Born: 1564
  • Died: April 23, 1616
  • Occupation: Poet
    • If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, the one's for use, the other useth it.
    Wise Use Fairness
    . . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.
    Roots Weather Fairness
    The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem for that sweet odour which doth in it live.
    Sweet Flower Rose
    Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. o, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken. it is the star to every wandering bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    Love Stars Taken
    I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, to die upon the hand i love so well
    Love Hands Heaven
    Love denied blights the soul we owe to god.
    Love Soul Blight
    ...and then, in dreaming, / the clouds methought would open and show riches / ready to drop upon me, that when i waked / i cried to dream again.
    Dream Clouds Riches
    Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
    Beautiful Wise Art
    Fondling,' she saith, 'since i have hemm'd thee here within the circuit of this ivory pale, i'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
    Lying Ivory Erotic
    And what’s he then that says i play the villain?
    Play Villain
    And some that smile have in their hearts, i fear, millions of mischiefs.
    Heart Mischief Millions
    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east, and juliet is the sun. arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. be not her maid, since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green and none but fools do wear it; cast it off. it is my lady, o, it is my love! oh, that she knew she were!
    Art Grief Moon
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