VoicesWS Playwright · Elizabethan England
William Shakespeare English playwright and poet whose works explore every dimension of the human condition (love, power, jealousy, ambition, mortality) with unmatched depth.
Signals 64
Themes 12
Books 6 Books Hamlet, Act I, Scene III (Polonius) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Shakespeare, Sonnets Troilus and Cressida The Merchant of Venice The Taming of the Shrew All 64 Love 22 Space & the Cosmos 9 Wisdom for Builders 9 Discipline 9 Relationships 9 Truth & Clear Thinking 8 Inner Work 8 Mindset 8 Creativity 7 Emotional Regulation 6 Emotional Intelligence 6 Ethics & Morality 6
Principles · 64 teachings 01 Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 02 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. 03 Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. 04 Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. 05 Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. 06 Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. 07 Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love. 08 This is the very ecstasy of love. 09 Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. 10 Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. 11 Brevity is the soul of wit. 12 To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. 13 There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. 14 This above all: to thine own self be true. 15 To be, or not to be: that is the question. 16 We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 17 Men at some time are masters of their fates. 18 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. 19 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. 20 Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe. 21 Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. 22 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. 23 How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? 24 The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. Show more