Great Quotes From the Bard of Stratford-Upon-Avon

The greatest English writer in past, William Shakespeare, was born on this day in 1564. His thoughts endured until many of them became the most well-known phrases in English, despite the greatest players and producers still yearn for them to appear on television or live on stage.

Shakespeare, the son of a tradesman/bailiff, did not attend college, and he reportedly was detained for poaching ( a claim that America’s own Washington Irving cherished ). Elites of both his and our eras detested him. However, the uninformed tradesman’s son was like a genius that he rose to the top of the list of most quoted writers in English literature, and just as naturally, his characters leap out of print as living, breathing creations, each unique and memorable, more strikingly real to us now as his audiences hundreds of years ago than several an genuine historical figure. Shakespeare was the brilliant director and actor, if the entire world were level.

In fact, part of Shakespeare’s persistent elegance is not only his talent but also his capacity to see past the biases and stereotypes of his own time. One of his greatest tragic soldiers is an American, and he was aware that Jews and Christians share the same people and emotions as some of his most brilliant figures: women. Some of his plays are utterly Catholic despite Elizabeth I’s severe anti-Catholic persecutions. He wrote about princes and emperors, but he consistently portrayed the viewpoint of the average person and asserted that the prince is just a man, like any regular man. &nbsp,

The greatest works of Shakespeare have some of the funniest and wisest rates:

” All the men and women are just people, and the world is a stage.” One person from his generation plays many roles in both of them, and they both have exits and doors. —As You Like It

” We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he to-day that sheds his heart with me will be my nephew, be he ne’er so cruel,/ This day shall light his state,” said the statement,” And boys in England now a-bed / Shall consider themselves accursed they were not here, / And hold their crotches cheap whiles any speaks / That fought with us on Saint Crispin’s time.” — Henry V

Some are born great, some become great, and others are given greatness by the force of nature. Twelveth Night

The mercy’s quality is unstrained, and it drops as the gentle rain from heaven. / Upon the location where below”. The Merchant of Venice

” Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day… Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour on stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” —Macbeth

According to wikipedia,” A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet

” To the truest of your own self, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man,” he said. —Hamlet

” Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,” the saying goes. —Julius Caesar

The question is” to be or not to be.” —Hamlet

According to  Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, and is thus blinded by a winged Cupid. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Our lips and our eyes were filled with eternity. —Cleopatra and Antony

Do we not bleed if you prick us, asks the question? Do we not laugh if you tickle us? Do we not perish if you poison us? And if you violate us, will we seek retribution? The Merchant of Venice

We are such things as dreams are made on, and our little life is finished with a sleep, according to &nbsp. The Tempest

Some Cupids use arrows, while others use traps. Much Ado About Nothing

A coward dies a thousand times before passing away, but only once with the valiant taste of death. —Julius Caesar

At the Globe Theater in London and Shakespeare’s Stratford childhood home, respectively. twitter.com/Ii0vtY0oiR— Catherine Salgado (@CatSalgado32 ) April 23, 2025

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” I love you with all of my heart so fiercely that there is nothing to protest.” Much Ado About Nothing

Nothing will result in nothingness. —King Lear

A horse! a stallion! My horse-related kingdom is””! — Richard III

What fools are these mortals, Lord? A Midsummer Night’s Dream

” Reputation is an idle and most false imposition that is frequently gotten without merit and lost without merit.” —Othello

Let me not to the marriage of true minds; accept obstacles; love is not love; which alters when it finds, bends, or bends with the remover to remove. O O no, it is an ever-fixed mark that appears on a cloud of mist and is never shattered. —Sonnet 116

Happy William Shakespeare’s birthday!

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