William Shakespeare Quotes

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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

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Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

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Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

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The fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again; and frame some feeling line;
That may discover such integrity.

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She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings—the husband's the bigger.

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How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!

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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.

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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

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We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is. All for your delight,
We are not here …

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Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V

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Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

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My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. 'Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

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Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'.

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How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd.

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Say, from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting?

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Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

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O heavens! this is my true-begotten father.

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For slander lives upon succession,
Forever housed where it gets possession.

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O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails.

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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place.

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I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.

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Worse than the sun in March This praise doth nourish agues.

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For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.

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That roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly.

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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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