Quotable Series #11 - William Shakespeare Traditional Cache

The quotable series will contain quotes from different historical figures, movies and other interesting sources. 

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. 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's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.

Some of his more memorable quotes include:

1. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’ (Hamlet)

2. ‘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.’ (As You Like It)

3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’ (Romeo and Juliet)

4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ Richard III)

5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? (Macbeth)

6. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ (Twelfth Night)

7. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’ (Julius Caesar)

8.  ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’ (The Tempest)

9. ‘A man can die but once.’ (Henry IV)

10. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’ (King Lear)

11. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’ (Hamlet)

12. ‘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?’ (The Merchant of Venice)

13.  ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’ (Othello)

14. ‘’The lady doth protest too much, me thinks’ (Hamlet)

15.  ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ (The Tempest)

16. ‘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.’ (Macbeth)

17. ‘Beware the Ides of March.’ (Julius Caesar)

18. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.’ (Hamlet)

19. ‘If music be the food of love play on.’ (Twelfth Night)

20. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’ (Romeo and Juliet)

21. ‘The better part of valor is discretion’ (Henry IV)

22. ‘To thine own self be true.‘ (Hamlet)

23. ‘All that glisters is not gold.’ (The Merchant of Venice)

24. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’ (Julius Caesar)

25. ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’ (King Lear)

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