William Shakespeare Quotes

William Shakespeare was an English poet, actor and playwright. He has become immortalized through his incredibly influential plays, like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth to name a few. He is also remembered for his considerable contributions to the development of the English language and overall culture.

When it comes to the person of Shakespeare, we do know that he must have been a very private person because many details of his life and who he was are uncertain. Most of the things we know about him have been deducted and speculated through and from related historical documents. However, till this day, there are historians who proclaim that Shakespeare’s real identity still hasn’t been convincingly decided. Alongside these uncertainties are all the rumors and legends that time has woven into his life story, and which make up much of his biography.

William Shakespeare was probably born in 1564 in the town of Stratford in Avon, Warwickshire in England as the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He married Anne Hatheway in 1582, when he was 18 years old, Anne whom his senior was 26 at the time. He had three children with her, one son and later two twin daughters born in 1585. This same year, he and his family moved to London, where he found work in a theater after which he became a member of. It was here where he distinguished himself both as an actor and as a writer. From the 1590s onwards he came to be recognized as the country’s great playwright, and soon became a wealthy man. During his first years in London however, theaters in the city were badly affected by the plague, whom he lost his first-born son and sister to.

In this quote collection we’ve decided to honour Shakespeare’s memory and his timeless plays, regardless of whether we know who he really was. What we do know is that he has been immortalized through his wisdom, insights and imagination more than the speculative details of his biographical life.

Number of quotes found: 25

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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

Source: The Tempest: Act 4 - Scene 1 - 1611

If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

— William Shakespeare

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.

— William Shakespeare

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Source: Macbeth: Act 5 - Scene 5 - 1606

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

— William Shakespeare

Source: Richard II: Act 4 - Scene 1 - 1597

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.”