William Shakespeare Quotes

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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

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Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." —Othello, Act III, Scene iii

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Weaving spiders come not here;
Hence you long-legged spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.

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If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

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What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

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The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,
That Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead.

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But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.

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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

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Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news.

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Oh, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

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Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

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Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay.

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For what is wedlock forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.

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There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave.

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Relenting fool, and shallow changing woman!

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Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.

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Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

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My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O! the world hath not a sweeter creature; she might lie by an emperor's side and command him tasks.

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"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal"' foh! a fico for the phrase!

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Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

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Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

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Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake.

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Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.

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Like a dull actor now,
I have forgot my part, and I am out,
Even to a full disgrace.

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Chaste as the icicle
That's curdied by the frost from purest snow,
And hangs on Dian's temple.

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I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

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The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

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Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

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The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

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