Title Page of the First Folio, 1623
Copper engraving of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout
Courtesy of Wikipedia
The Bard of Avon (1564-1616) turns 450 today and what better way is there to honor him than through some of my favorite quotes from his works.
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world.The paragon of animals." Hamlet
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Hamlet
"We know what we are, but not what we may be." Hamlet
"Listen to many, speak to few." Hamlet
"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, his acts being seven ages." As You Like it.
"Oh, wonder. How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in 't!" The Tempest
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." Julius Caesar
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night
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