William Shakespeare Quotes

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No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.

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What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?

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I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.

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The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And nature must obey necessity.

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

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I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man,
That love my friend.

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I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

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Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!

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O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

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Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

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The time and my intents are savage-wild,
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

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To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

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This silent war of lilies and of roses,
Which Tarquin view'd in her fair face's field.

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Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows bent.

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In Belmont is a lady richly left,
And she is fair, and fairer than the word,
Of wondrous virtues.

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Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.

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O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

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How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death.

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For so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

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Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion, — Have you a daughter? Polonius: I have, my lord. Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun.

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The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Sing all a green willow;
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
Sing willow, willow, willow.

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Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
The cry is still, "They come"; our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn.

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When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

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Our ship hath touch'd upon
The deserts of Bohemia.

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I thank you for your voices, thank you,
Your most sweet voices.

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I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

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Past and to come seem best; things present worst.

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