William Shakespeare Quotes

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Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale.

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Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

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And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.

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Come, trusty sword,
Come, blade, my breast imbrue!

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All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

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There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't.

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Here's a knocking, indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate he should have old turning the key. Knock, knock, knock! Who's there i' the name of Beelzebub?

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Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wip'd a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

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It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens.

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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

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My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

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The turkeys in my panier are quite starved.

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The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

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Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

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So they loved as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distinct, divisions none...

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Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox.

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A cut-purse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
And put it in his pocket!

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To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

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From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

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An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse.

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Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

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Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere, to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.

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A stone is soft as wax, tribunes more hard than stones.
A stone is silent and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.

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When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date

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Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!

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Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,
And we must sleep.

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