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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet

Lived from: 1564 - 1616

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

  • Love all, but trust a few.
  • A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
  • 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

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  • Be patient,
    For the world is broad and wide.
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  • All the world's a stage;
    And all the men and women merely players.
    As you like it (1599)
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  • Be patient, For the world is broad and wide.
    Romeo and Juliet 3, 3
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  • How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
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  • O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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  • O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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  • O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
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  • O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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  • Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
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  • Take note! Take note, o world! To be direct and honest is not enough.
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  • The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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  • To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
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  • What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
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  • 'Twas never merry world since lowly feigning was Galled compliment.
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What are the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare?

The two most famous quotes from William Shakespeare are:

  • "Be patient,
    For the world is broad and wide."
  • "All the world's a stage;
    And all the men and women merely players."

When did William Shakespeare live?

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in the year 1616.