{"id":6238,"date":"2022-11-27T21:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2022-11-27T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T16:08:24","slug":"william-shakespeare-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/william-shakespeare-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"41 Best William Shakespeare Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world&#8217;s pre-eminent dramatist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is often called England&#8217;s national poet and the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nosweatshakespeare.com\/resources\/life\/bard-of-avon\/\">Bard of Avon<\/a>&#8220;. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain&#8217;s Men, later known as the King&#8217;s Men. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here we have got 41 best William Shakespeare quotes about love and life:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. \u201cThe fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. \u201cLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. \u201cThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4. \u201cThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">5. \u201cHell is empty and all the devils are here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6. \u201cIt is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">7. \u201cWe know what we are, but not what we may be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">8. \u201cYou speak an infinite deal of nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">9. \u201cWords are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">10. \u201cThough she be but little, she is fierce!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">11. \u201cMy tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">12. \u201cThe course of true love never did run smooth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">13. \u201cStars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">14. \u201cLord, what fools these mortals be!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">15. \u201cI like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">16. \u201cDon&#8217;t waste your love on somebody, who doesn&#8217;t value it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17. &#8220;Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">18. &#8220;Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">19. &#8220;Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">20. &#8220;Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">21. &#8220;Nothing can come of nothing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">22. &#8220;How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">23. &#8220;What&#8217;s done can&#8217;t be undone.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">24. &#8220;Though she be but little, she is fierce.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">25. &#8220;No legacy is so rich as honesty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">26. &#8220;This above all; to thine own self be true.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">27. &#8220;I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">28. &#8220;The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">29. &#8220;The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">30. &#8220;One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">31. &#8220;What is past is prologue.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">32. &#8220;Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">33. &#8220;Sweet mercy is nobility&#8217;s true badge.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">34. &#8220;Neither a borrower nor a lender be.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">35. &#8220;Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">36. &#8220;I bear a charmed life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">37. &#8220;Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">38. &#8220;In time we hate that which we often fear.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">39. &#8220;Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">40. &#8220;With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">41. &#8220;Boldness be my friend.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lifegram_org\/\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Follow us on Instagram for daily motivation and life productivity tips.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world&#8217;s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England&#8217;s national poet and the &#8220;Bard of Avon&#8220;. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[656,970],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}