William Shakespeare Quotes

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Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world,
And bear the palm alone.

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What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

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And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,
Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;
Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world
wags."

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Constant you are,
But yet a woman: and for secrecy,
No lady closer; for I well believe
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;
And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.

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He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

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A breath thou art,
Servile to all the skyey influences.

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Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.

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Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

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Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

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Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,
In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter.

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With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.

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A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

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And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

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I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

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But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

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O! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

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'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

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I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

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Like to the Pontick sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up.

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Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

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I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well

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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.

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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

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This fell sergeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest.

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Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.

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The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

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Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

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Love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried.

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A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

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