William Shakespeare Quotes

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For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

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Oh God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea.

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Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

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The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited.

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He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones.

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But were I Brutus,
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar, that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

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Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

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How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

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When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me.

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The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

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By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

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No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

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'Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god.

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He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.

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That I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 'I came, saw, and overcame.'

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I will make it felony to drink small beer.

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Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

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I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

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O ill-starred wench!
Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
Even like thy chastity.

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The self-same sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.

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Contending with the fretful elements;
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,
That things might change or cease.

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I will tell you the beginning, and if it please your ladyships, you may see the end, for the best is yet to do.

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The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

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Still question'd me the story of my life From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have pass'd.

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The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
They laugh at.

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