William Shakespeare Quotes

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In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way with more advised watch, To find the other forth, and by adventuring both, I oft found both.

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Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents. Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

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Down on your knees,
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

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That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,
Like him that travels, I return again.

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Thy food is such
As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

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You are my true and honorable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.

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How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.

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Hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge
And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,
Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-Lion,
Lord of thy presence and no land beside.

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The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

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He that has a little tiny wit,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day.

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I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

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O farewell …
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

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He gave his honors to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.

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Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

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Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass, And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye, When love, converted from the thing it was, Shall reasons find of settled gravity.

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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

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Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.

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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly
breach.

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This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Now these her princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them: nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.

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They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad: so may my husband.

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So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

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His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

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There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

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He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

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A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

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No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.

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For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep Seeming and savor all the winter long.

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We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man.

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I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cushes on his thighs, gallantly armed,
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropped down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

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