William Shakespeare Quotes

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Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare
O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.

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But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

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O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!

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But in the way of bargain, mark you me,
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

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O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide!

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O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

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Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

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Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;
A vapor sometime like a bear or lion,
A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon 't.

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Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

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O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.

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And if the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die.

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He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

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You do as chapmen do,
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy.

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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor power of speech,
To stir men's blood; I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

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O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardor gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will.

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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

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Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

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Macbeth: If we should fail,—
Lady Macbeth: We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.

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That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.

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To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

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Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.

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Day doth daily draw my sorrow's longer,
And night doth nightly make grief's length seem longer.

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Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

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O! what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!

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Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.

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