William Shakespeare Quotes

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If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?

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Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd.

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Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Clown: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent—sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

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Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

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My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen: my crown is call'd content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

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I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.

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And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot:
And thereby hangs a tale.

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You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you,
For learning me your language!

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In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,
Is best to lodge.

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'Tis but a base ignoble mind
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

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The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.

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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you

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Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth
know.

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Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

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I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture

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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

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Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd —
The wild waves whist, —
Foot it featly here and there.

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But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
How London doth pour out her citizens.

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Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

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Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry.

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.

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Caesar: The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.

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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.

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Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath:
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

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