William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, renowned for his profound exploration of human emotions in works like 'Hamlet' and 'Othello.'

Born
April 23, 1564
Died
April 23, 1616
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"Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"

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"How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste."

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"I have drunk and seen the spider."

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"Too nice, and yet too true!"

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"O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet"

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"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. *Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It’s a wise form of madness. It’s a sweet lozenge that you choke on.*"

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"Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*"

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"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."

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"The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75"

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"And Caesar shall go forth."

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"Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat."

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"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."

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"Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me"

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"To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive."

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"I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish."

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"A plague on both your houses."

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"Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii"

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"Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun."

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"For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation."

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