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Quotes By William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

Apr 23, 1564 - Apr 23, 1616

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

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! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.