William Shakespeare Quotes

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My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass.

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And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night...

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This battle fares like to the morning's war,
When dying clouds contend with growing light,
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Can neither call it perfect day nor night.

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

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…An unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised;
Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn; happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn.

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They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

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Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.

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'Tis well said again;
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.

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And to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief.

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I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

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And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little little grave, an obscure grave.

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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's.

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A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.

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I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.

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If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy.

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Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.

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Blow, blow thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.

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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

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Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;
I am justly killed with my own treachery.

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Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

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The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

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There's something tells me, but it is not love, I would not lose you; and you know yourself, Hate counsels not in such a quality.

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A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

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Scratching could not make it worse... such a face as yours.

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Sell when you can, you are not for all markets.

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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?

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Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

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