William Shakespeare

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Lived: 1564 – 1616
Era: Elizabethan / Jacobean
Place: Stratford-upon-Avon / London, England

English playwright and poet whose comedies, tragedies, and sonnets remain central to world literature.

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Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
— William ShakespeareHope
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
— William ShakespeareCourage
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
— William ShakespeareCourage
Screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail.
— William ShakespeareCourage
Boldness be my friend.
— William ShakespeareCourage
I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.
— William ShakespeareGratitude
O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
— William ShakespeareGratitude
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
— William ShakespeareGratitude
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
— William ShakespeareHope
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
— William ShakespeareHope
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
— William ShakespeareCourage
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
— William ShakespeareCourage
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
— William ShakespeareCourage
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
— William ShakespeareCourage
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
— William ShakespeareGrowth
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
— William ShakespeareGrowth
The quality of mercy is not strain’d; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
— William ShakespeareGratitude
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
— William ShakespeareStrength
O brave new world, that has such people in’t!
— William ShakespeareStrength
What’s past is prologue.
— William ShakespeareGrowth
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
— William ShakespeareStrength
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
— William ShakespeareSpiritual
Courage mounteth with occasion.
— William ShakespeareCourage
The night is long that never finds the day.
— William ShakespeareHope
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings.
— William ShakespeareHope
All things are ready, if our minds be so.
— William ShakespeareCourage
I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.
— William ShakespeareGratitude
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William ShakespeareGratitude
The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
— William ShakespeareStrength
Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a: A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
— William ShakespeareSmile
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William ShakespeareSmile
Let me play the fool, With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
— William ShakespeareSmile
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
— William ShakespeareSmile
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
— William ShakespeareSmile