William Shakespeare Quotes

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

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Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

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Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task fordone.

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The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

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One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

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Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.

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DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

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Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.

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

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

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

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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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The kiss you take is better than you give.

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

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

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But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

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