We present you top 10 quotes from Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.
He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.
The Bard wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets and his works are still performed onstage.
Here are the Top 10 quotes from Shakespeare:
‘All’s Well That Ends Well,’ 1:2
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
‘Twelfth Night,’ 2:5
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.”
‘The Merchant of Venice,’ 3:1
“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?”
‘Hamlet,’ 1:5
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
‘Macbeth,’ 1:3
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.”
‘Twelfth Night,’ 3:1
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
Olivia’s lines in “Twelfth Night” speak of the joy of unexpected love, rather than that which is pined for.
‘Antony & Cleopatra,’ 3:4
“If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
Antony here worries about losing himself in his devotion to Cleopatra, noting how slavish love can destroy one’s honor.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ 5:1
“It’s not enough to speak, but to speak true.”
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