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Quotes By William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

Apr 23, 1564 - Apr 23, 1616

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

Words spoken cannot be recalled so think twice before you speak.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.