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Shakespearean and Misquotes

Shakespearean Quotes

Quotes Mistakenly Attributed To Shakespeare

Chronological Order Of Works By The Bard

1590-1591...Henry VI part II
1590-1591...Henry VI part III
1591-1592...Henry VI part I
1592-1595...Richard III
1592-1593...The Comedy of Errors
1593-1594...Titus Andronicus
1593-1594...The Taming of the Shrew
1594-1595...The two Gentlemen of Avaerona
1594-1595...Love's Labour's Lost
1594-1595...Romeo and Juliet
1595-1596...Richard III
1595-1596...A Midsummer night's Dream
1596-1597...King John
1596-1597...The Merchant of Venice
1598-1599...Much Ado About Nothing
1598-1599...Henry V
1599-1600...Julius Caesar
1599-1600...As You Like It
1599-1600...Twelfth Night
1600-1601...Hamlet
1600-1601...The Merry Wives of Windsor
1601-1602...Troilus and Cressida
1602-1603...All's Well That Ends Well
1604-1605...Measure for Measure
1604-1605...Othello
1605-1606...King Lear
1605-1606...Macbeth
1606-1607...Antony and Cleopatra
1607-1608...Coriolanus
1607-1608...Timon of Athens
1608-1609...Pericles
1609-1610...Cymbeline
1610-1611...The Winter's Tale
1611-1612...The Tempest
1612-1613...Henry VIII
1612-1613...The Two Noble Kinsmen



	This England never did, nor shall, Lie at the proud foot of conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. -King John Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. - Twelfth Night O, beweare, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. -Othello Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air into air; ..We are such stuff As dreass are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep -The Tempest O god! Methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homeely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live. -HenryVI Part III

		I was sure that the line "we have met the enemy and he is us" is from Shakespeare, but I cannot find it anywhere! Actually, the cartoonist Walt Kelly wrote the line "We have met the enemy and he is us", in his strip called "Pogo Possum". There are several other sayings mistakenly attributed to the Bard. Here are just a few: "Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive" - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) "No man is an island" - John Donne (The Bait, 1624) "Come live with me and be my love" - Marlowe (Passionate Shepherd to his Love, 1599) "For you suffer fools gladly, seeing yourself as wise" - II Corinthians 11:19. "Remember, that time is money" - Benjamin Franklin (Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748) "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost" - Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack) "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak" - William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 1.1) "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" - William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 3.8) "I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul" - William Ernest Henley (Invictus, 1875) "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850) "So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good" - John Milton (Paradise Lost, bk.iv,1.108, 1667) "War is the trade of kings" - John Dryden (King Arthur, II.ii, 1691) "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times" -- Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, 1859) "These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul." -- Guillaume Du Bartas (Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day)