William Shakespeare Quotes

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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

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Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?

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Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought!

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He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.

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What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

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Macduff: Our royal master's murdered!
Lady Macbeth: Woe, alas!
What! in our house?

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But I am pigeon-livered, and lack gall
To make oppression bitter.

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How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!

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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

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For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it.

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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised:

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And He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age!

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I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

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Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.

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Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

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Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

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Who lin'd himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply.

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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

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She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

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My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.

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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily:
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

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By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

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Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

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The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

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Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

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