Quotes by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet

Alive from: 1564-1616

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

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  But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

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  Bow, stubborn knees!

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  But mercy is above the sceptred sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself.

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  Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

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  Farewell, fair cruelty.

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  Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.

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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?

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  A fool's bolt is soon shot.
  Source: Henry V (1599) 3,7

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  Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

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  And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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  I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

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  Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

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  Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

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  With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.