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Born in April 26, 1564 / Died in April 23, 1616 / United Kingdom / English

Quotes by William Shakespeare

There is no darkness but ignorance.
Let no such man be trusted.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
If music be the food of love, play on.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please!
For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie...
For through the painter must you see his skill, To find where your true image pictured lies,...
Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.
O, if you raise this house against this house It will the woefullest division prove That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
The earth has music for those who listen.
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For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
You yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm, To sell and mart your offices for gold To undeservers.
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks, And given my treasures and my rights of thee...
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.