William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Quotes
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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
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He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get. -
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What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time? -
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. -
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If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
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My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. -
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.
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Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind,
Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind. -
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