There can be few people who are unfamiliar with the name William Shakespeare. He was, of course, a playwright and one of the giants of English literature.
The Bard of Avon, as he was known, is widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent dramatist and the greatest writer in the English language.
Shakespeare’s works, including his collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.
William Shakespeare’s plays have been translated into every major living language, and they are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Quotes by William Shakespeare are well known and most readers will be familiar with them. However, I make no apology for making Shakespeare’s quotes the subject of today’s post.
If you hear a great song that inspires you, you don’t say, “Right, heard it once. That’s enough!”
No, you listen to it over and over again. In that way, you’re inspired constantly.
And so it is with thought-provoking quotes like those of Shakespeare.
They are worth reading over and over again to help you reflect on life’s meaning and to be inspired.
So here are 15 quotes by William Shakespeare to inspire you, dear reader.
Quotes by William Shakespeare:
- To thine own self be true. ~William Shakespeare
- All that glitters is not gold. ~William Shakespeare
- Nothing will come of nothing. ~William Shakespeare
- Lord, what fools these mortals be! ~William Shakespeare
- If music be the food of love play on. ~William Shakespeare
- The better part of valour is discretion. ~William Shakespeare
- Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. ~William Shakespeare
- The course of true love never did run smooth. ~William Shakespeare
- We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~William Shakespeare
- How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! ~William Shakespeare
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ~William Shakespeare
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once. ~William Shakespeare
- 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? ~William Shakespeare
- The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. ~William Shakespeare
- All the world‘s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. They have their exits and entrances, and one man plays many parts in his time. ~William Shakespeare
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