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Quote by William Shakespeare

“Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!”

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William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) was one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, renowned for his dramatic works. His plays spanned a variety of genres, including tragedy, comedy, and history, and have had a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.”

Men Wells Whole Speak Sex Women Religious Heard Youth Mines Taught Touched Thank God Offense Uncles Lectures Courtship Giddy

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

“O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?”

Women Delicate

Book:The Dramatic Works and Poems

Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems

“Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud; Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.”

Women Sweet Angel Fairs Rose Clouds Bud

Book:Love's Labour's Lost

Source: Love's Labour's Lost

“Two women placed together makes cold weather.”

Two Together Women Cold Weather Cold Weather

Author:William Shakespeare

“Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?”