William Shakespeare Quotes About History

• Presume not that I am the thing I was.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [61]

• What is past is prologue.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, History

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

• There is a history in all men's lives.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

• In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.346, Cengage Learning EMEA

• I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.394

• I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 9

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