William Shakespeare Quotes

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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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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Idiot, Blind

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

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perception, Prison

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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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  The Eyes are the window to your soul

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Soul, Window

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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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• 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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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Fool

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Fall

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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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• Brevity is the soul of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Attitude, Communication

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 90

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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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• In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance

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• We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Littles, Enjoy

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• Nothing comes from doing nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Doing Nothing, Action

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• Beauty lives with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Kindness, Beauty Of Life

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Chance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

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• Desperate times breed desperate measures

  William Shakespeare

  Desperate Measures, Problem, Desperate Times

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Desire, Spirit

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

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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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• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

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• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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