William Shakespeare Quotes

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Methinks I see my father … in my mind's eye, Horatio.

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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.

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The world is grown so bad That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

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Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.

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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

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O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

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A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

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Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new-reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home: He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again.

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Have you not made a universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her concave shores?

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Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere

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Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days.

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LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

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Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.

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I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

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Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

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Then everything includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, a universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce a universal prey,
And last eat up himself.

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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

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Duke: And what's her history?
Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed On Her Damask Cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.

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No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

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My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial.

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How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.

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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.

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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.

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We are not the first
Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

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Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd.

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Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord.
Hamlet: As woman's love.

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The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

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