William Shakespeare Quotes

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And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

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Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

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Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell... Or say with princes if it shall go well...

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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

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O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

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How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

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For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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For to be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

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I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

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Everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

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Ere the bat hath flown
His cloistered flight, ere, to black Hecate's summons
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.

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The worst is death, and death will have his day.

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When a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.

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Yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noonday, upon the marketplace,
Hooting and shrieking.

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The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

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My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.

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But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,
As now they are, and making practised smiles,
As in a looking-glass.

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Where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody.

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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

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'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
Rancor will out.

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He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

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All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told.

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He that depends
Upon your favours swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes.

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Art thou his father?
Ay, sir, so his mother says, if I may believe her.

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Like a fair house built upon another man's ground.

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