William Shakespeare: Hamlet.
QUOTE:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
QUOTE:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
by John Geometry TM October 6, 2025
Get the William Shakespeare: Hamlet.mug. by Jimin_NoJams March 7, 2019
Get the Shakespearemug. using an old fashioned way of writing books and plays. with no computers involved.
tech is a short version of the word technology meaning electrical everyday items.
tech is a short version of the word technology meaning electrical everyday items.
guy 1: man, i got a history assignment and my computers broke. I got to write it by pen
guy 2: uggh i hate using shakespeare tech!
guy 2: uggh i hate using shakespeare tech!
by ComicGal April 27, 2010
Get the shakespeare techmug. A retarded (twat) who absolutely no one likes. Students are forced to learn about even though every fact about him is totally useless. No one gives a shit about what he did.
by Twat 123 November 21, 2019
Get the Shakespearemug. a complete waste of quality time in school which could be further used for my sleep. English teachers like it too much, students don't like it at all.
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Get the shakespearemug. He is THE bard.
A great English dude from the Renaissance who wrote lots of plays and sonnets like Romeo and Juliet and Richard II (even though he first wrote Richard III, I mean whO gOEs bAcKWaRds????).
He was the will of the people, the king of couplets, the sultan of sonnets, the man who put "I am" in iambic pentameter. Also, many words and phrases that are in our popular language were actually coined by him.
But wasn't everything lovely as a summer's day. That bar he was raising to be that amazing was hard, he had many fans with many demands and writing itself within strict parameters ends up being demanding too.
A great English dude from the Renaissance who wrote lots of plays and sonnets like Romeo and Juliet and Richard II (even though he first wrote Richard III, I mean whO gOEs bAcKWaRds????).
He was the will of the people, the king of couplets, the sultan of sonnets, the man who put "I am" in iambic pentameter. Also, many words and phrases that are in our popular language were actually coined by him.
But wasn't everything lovely as a summer's day. That bar he was raising to be that amazing was hard, he had many fans with many demands and writing itself within strict parameters ends up being demanding too.
Nick Bottom: God, I hate Shakespeare.
Basically everyone: le gasp
...
Shakespeare: A giant lizard with crooked smile, have you seen one?
Random person: Yeah, crocodile.
Shakespeare: But may be not that. Take the Spanish to the English alligator.
Random person: Alligator?
Shakespeare: Yes, a word you've never heard unless you heard of me. Th-
People: He's a genius, how does he do it? He makes it look so easy like there's nothing to it.
Shakespeare: Honestly, I don't know how I do it. I just think the word out in my head and then it's coined. Like the tons of times that I've done it before. Hm, are you bedazzled? Well, you should be because these are words you never heard if not from me.
Basically everyone: le gasp
...
Shakespeare: A giant lizard with crooked smile, have you seen one?
Random person: Yeah, crocodile.
Shakespeare: But may be not that. Take the Spanish to the English alligator.
Random person: Alligator?
Shakespeare: Yes, a word you've never heard unless you heard of me. Th-
People: He's a genius, how does he do it? He makes it look so easy like there's nothing to it.
Shakespeare: Honestly, I don't know how I do it. I just think the word out in my head and then it's coined. Like the tons of times that I've done it before. Hm, are you bedazzled? Well, you should be because these are words you never heard if not from me.
by it's_hard_to_be_the_bard May 31, 2020
Get the Shakespearemug. After brainstorming with my friends all night, I finally unleashed my inner Shakespeare and created a new term that perfectly captures our inside jokes!
by Emotional Cruiser September 20, 2025
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