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William Shakespeare [1564-1616] English

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Poet (with poems), Poet

Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, 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".

Men, Love, Good, Death, Time, God, Great, Nature, Faith, Money, Trust, Women, Courage, Father's Day, Fear, Life, Music, Patience, Peace, Relationship, Sad, Art, Best, Communication, Dating, Dreams, Experience, Food, Forgiveness, Future, Happiness, Hope, Imagination, Inspirational, Knowledge, Marriage, New Year's, Sports, Strength, Sympathy, Travel, Truth, Valentine's Day, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.	Inspirational	32
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.	Future	102
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.	Love, Trust	103
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.		104
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.	Good	105
No legacy is so rich as honesty.		106
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?		107
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.	Father's Day	108
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.	Love	109
If music be the food of love, play on.	Food, Love, Music	110
The course of true love never did run smooth.	Love	111
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.	Time	112
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.	Nature	113
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.	Men, Time, Women	114
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.	Great	115
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.	God	116
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.		117
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.	Dating, Good	118
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.	Good	119
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.	Love, Truth, Valentine's Day	120
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.		121
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.	God, Knowledge	122
Brevity is the soul of wit.	Communication	123
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.		124
Listen to many, speak to a few.		125
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.	Men	126
There is no darkness but ignorance.		201
To be, or not to be, that is the question.		202
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.	Death	203
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.		204
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.	Faith, Love	205
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.		206
Farewell, fair cruelty.		207
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.		208
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.		209
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.	Good, Men	210
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.	Time	211
I bear a charmed life.	Life	212
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.	Life	213
Now is the winter of our discontent.		214
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.	Hope, New Year's	215
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.	Dreams	216
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.	Good	217
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?		218
The wheel is come full circle.		219
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!	God	220
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!		221
To do a great right do a little wrong.	Great	222
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.		223
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.	Best, Men	224
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.		225
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.		226
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.		301
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.		302
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.	Good, Nature	303
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.		304
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.	God, Work	305
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.	Great	306
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.	Death	307
It is a wise father that knows his own child.	Father's Day	308
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.	Music	309
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.		310
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.		311
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.	Sympathy	312
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.		313
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.		314
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.	Forgiveness	315
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.		316
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.		317
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.		318
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.		319
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.		320
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?	Patience	321
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.		322
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.	Good, Relationship	323
Let no such man be trusted.	Trust	324
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.	Time	325
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.		326
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.	Men	401
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.		402
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.		403
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.		404
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.		405
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.		406
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.		407
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.	Art	408
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.	Marriage	409
Boldness be my friend.	Courage	410
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.	Men, Women	411
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.		412
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.	Faith, God	413
Love is too young to know what conscience is.		414
Such as we are made of, such we be.		415
Men's vows are women's traitors!	Men, Women	416
Give thy thoughts no tongue.		417
An overflow of good converts to bad.		418
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.		419
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.	Patience	420
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?	Courage	421
Death is a fearful thing.	Death	422
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.	Men	423
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.		424
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!		425
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.		426
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.	Nature	501
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.		502
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.	Faith, Great, Men	503
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.		504
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.		505
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.	Sports	506
This above all; to thine own self be true.		507
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.		508
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.	Love	509
What is past is prologue.		510
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.	Fear	511
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.	Nature	512
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.		513
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.		514
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.		515
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.		516
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.		517
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?		518
My pride fell with my fortunes.	Money	519
They say miracles are past.		520
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.		521
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.	Imagination	522
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.		523
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.		524
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.		525
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.		526
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.		601
They do not love that do not show their love.	Relationship	602
Nothing can come of nothing.		603
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.		604
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.		605
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.		606
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.	Trust	607
O, had I but followed the arts!		608
The valiant never taste of death but once.	Death	609
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.		610
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!		611
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.		612
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.		613
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.		614
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.		615
Speak low, if you speak love.		616
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.		617
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.		618
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!		619
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.		620
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.		621
There's many a man has more hair than wit.		622
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.		623
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!	Experience, Sad, Travel	624
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.	Death	625
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.	Peace	626
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.		701
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.		702
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.		703
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.		704
How well he's read, to reason against reading!		705
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.		706
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.	Time	707
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.		708
I must be cruel, only to be kind.		709
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.		710
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!	Death	711
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.		712
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.		713
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.	Peace	714
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.	Time	715
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!		716
There's place and means for every man alive.		717
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.		718
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.	Happiness	719
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.		720
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.		721
In time we hate that which we often fear.	Fear	722
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.		723
For my part, it was Greek to me.		724
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!		725
I dote on his very absence.		726
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.		801
I will praise any man that will praise me.		802
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.		803
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!		804
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.		805
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.		806
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.		807
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.	Sad	808
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.		809
For I can raise no money by vile means.	Money	810
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.	Strength	811
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.		812
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.		813
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.		814
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.		815
I was adored once too.	Love	816
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.	Money	817
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.		818
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.		819
By that sin fell the angels.		820
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.		821
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.		822
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.		823
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.		824
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.		825
What's done can't be undone.		826
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.		901
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.		902
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.		903

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