William Shakespeare

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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...

William Shakespeare (born April 1564; baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616 (Old Style/Julian), 3 May 1616 (New Style/Gregorian) English playwright and poet.

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Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
- The Rape of Lucrece

I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture
(Modern spelling: I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.)
- Shakespeare's will

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosèd here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
- Shakespeare's epitaph

Jaques: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players...
- As You Like It Act II, sc. vii

Iago: I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs
- Othello, Act I, sc. i

Hamlet: There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet

Hamlet: To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep no more.
- Hamlet

Juliet: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- Romeo and Juliet

Juliet: Romeo, O Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?
- Romeo and Juliet

Antony: The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones.
- Julius Caesar

Puck: Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

Casca:But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
- Julius Caesar Act I, sc. ii

Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March.
- Julius Caesar Act I, sc. ii

Cassius: Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
- Julius Caesar Act I, sc. ii

Caesar:Et tu Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
- Julius Caesar, Act III, sc. i

Antony:Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war.
- Julius Caesar Act III, sc. i

Antony:Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it is a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, -
For Brutus is an honrable man;
So are they all, all honrable men, -
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
- Julius Caesar Act III, sc. ii

Brutus:Caesar, now be still:
I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
- Julius Caesar Act V, sc. v

Antony:This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He only, in a general honest thought,
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This was a man!
- Julius Caesar Act V, sc. v

Launcelot: ...truth will out
- The Merchant of Venice Act II, sc. ii

Morocco: All that glitters is not gold.
- The Merchant of Venice Act II, sc. vii

Shylock: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 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?
- The Merchant of Venice Act III, sc. i

Portia: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
- The Merchant of Venice Act IV, sc. i

Portia: How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- The Merchant of Venice Act V, sc. i

Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came oer my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour!
- Twelfth Night Act I, sc. i

Feste: Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage;
- Twelfth Night Act I, sc. v

Malvolio: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- Twelfth Night Act II, sc. v

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Works of Shakespeare

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About

He was not of an age, but for all time!
- Ben Jonson, To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1623).
But Shakespear's Magick could not copy'd be,
Within that Circle none durst walk but he.
- John Dryden, The Tempest (1667), prologue.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Solution", May-Day and Other Pieces (1867).
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder
That such trivial people should muse and thunder
In such lovely language.
- D. H. Lawrence, When I read Shakespeare (1929)
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good—in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves, The Observer, "Sayings of the Week", December 6, 1964.
The verbal poetic texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Shakespeare—The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
- Laurence Olivier