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"90 William Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

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Born: April 1564. Died: 23 April 1616 | Writer | Poet |

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Great Born Thrust Greatness
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love Eye Mind Blind
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love Smoke Make With
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Doubt Thou Stars Fire
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

Violent Kiss Ends Like
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Know We May
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life Virtue Honour Poor
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The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Wise Fools Pity Speak
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Eternal Fade Possession Death
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The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
Hope Medicine Miserable Only
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Empty Devil Hell Here
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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, his acts being seven ages.

Acts Ages Being Entrance
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Curse Fly God Heaven
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
Course Did Love Never
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Before Cowards Death Taste
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Fool Himself Knows Man
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Better Given Good Love
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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Above Conditions Govern Stars
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Attempt Doubts Fearing Good
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Action Admirable God Angel
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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?

Bleed Die Laugh Poison
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Adversity Precious Head Jewel
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Candle Deed Far Good
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
Great Little Right Wrong
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Born Come Cry Fools
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kin Makes Nature Touch
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If music be the food of love, play on.

Food Love Music Play
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Ear Every Voice Few
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Country Die Enough Fewer
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ambitious Dream Merely Shadow
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Child Serpent Sharper Than
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Conscience Know Love Too
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Care Done Exempt Fear
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Crown Head Lies Uneasy
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Crown Give Immortal Robe
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He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Giddy Round Thinks Turns
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Action Suit Word
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Bad Good Hanging Many
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What's done can't be undone.

Done Undone
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Speak low, if you speak love.

Love Low Speak You
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Age Cannot Endure Youth
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Fierce Little She Though
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Been Churches Cottage Easy
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Doing Done Joy Lies
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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

Sweet Smell Name Rose
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Deeds Words Well Kind
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Better Fool Foolish Than
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Honesty Legacy Rich
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William Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings