William Shakespeare Quotes

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I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon, and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab.

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Two lads that thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today, And to be boy eternal.

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All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

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How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac'd despair, And shuddering fear, and green-ey'd jealousy.

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I found you as a morsel, cold upon
Dead Caesar's trencher.

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The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again.

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There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.

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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

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So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

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In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears.

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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

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You are called plain Kate,
And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
But, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom;
Kate of Kate-Hall, my super-dainty Kate.

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I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

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There with fantastic garlands did she come,
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.

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There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

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She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

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What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

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Enough! no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

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But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil;
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stolen forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

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Is this the noble nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?

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My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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One fair daughter and no more,
The which he loved passing well.

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Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

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Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

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If you remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not lov'd.

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I am not merry, but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

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