Quotes by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet

Lived from: 1564 - 1616

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

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  • Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
    Hamlet
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  • Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    Twelfth Night (1601)
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  • Be patient, For the world is broad and wide.
    Romeo and Juliet 3, 3
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  • Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
    a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
    a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
    a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
    lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
    Henry VI 1, 4
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
    Romeo and Juliet (1595)
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Brevity is the soul of wit.
    Hamlet (1600)
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  • But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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  • By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
    And study help for that which thou lament'st.
    Two gentlemen of Verona 3, 1.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
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  • Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
    King Lear 1,1
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Confess yourself to heaven; repent what's past; avoid what is to come.
    Hamlet
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • Cowards die many times before their deaths.
    Julius Caesar II, 2, 2
    ― William Shakespeare
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