William Shakespeare Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Mind, Want

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

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perception, Prison

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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Idiot, Blind

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

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Temperance, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Leslie Rowse (1984). “King Lear: modern text with introduction”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, World, Stage

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• Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!
  But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Laughing, Sorrow

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• When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hate, People

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• Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Games, Play

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• If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

  William Shakespeare

  Can Not, Ifs

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  The Eyes are the window to your soul

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Soul, Window

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• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

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• Omittance is no quittance.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price, Theatrefolk (2004). “Scene-speare! : Shakespearean Scenes for Student Actors”, p.106, Theatrefolk

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• Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Bags, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1969). “Coriolanus”, p.172, CUP Archive

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall

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• I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

  William Shakespeare

  Sarcastic, Witty, Funny Life

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• Love sees with the heart and not with mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mind

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• Nothing comes from doing nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Doing Nothing, Action

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Thieves, Might

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• I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Stars

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• Sometimes, less is more.

  William Shakespeare

  Reality, Less Is More, Sometimes

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• Life's 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Wish

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 191

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• Every why has a wherefore.

  William Shakespeare

  Purpose

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.40, BookCaps Study Guides

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