William Shakespeare Quotes

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The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.

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Hang up philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet.

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Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.

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Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:
Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!

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Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

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The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! The charm's wound up.

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Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

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A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me.

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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

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O, speak to me no more; these words like daggers enter my ears.
A fancy way of saying SHUT UP!

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They have tied me to the stake, I cannot fly,
But, bear-like, I must fight the course.

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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

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Finger of birth-strangled babe,
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab.

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The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

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If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

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Now, God be prais'd, that to believing souls Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!

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The sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast.

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'Tis a happy thing
To be the father unto many sons.

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Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

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I am thy father's spirit;
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night.

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The kiss you take is better than you give.

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And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come.

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There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.

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"So so," is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so.

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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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