William Shakespeare: Man

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)

“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!”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“O God! methinks, it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely 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 make the hour full complete,
How many hours bring about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

King Henry, Act II, scene v.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)

“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare
To digg the dust encloased heare
Blese be the man that spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones”

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's epitaph

“A man can die but once.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV

Feeble, Act III, scene ii.
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)

“All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.”

William Shakespeare