William Shakespeare Quotes

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I understand thy kisses and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation.

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He's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.

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In thy youth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.

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Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me
All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;
Let's mock the midnight bell.

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Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

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But mice and rats and such small deer Have been Tom's food for seven long year.

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Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

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For how can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

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Go with me, like good angels, to my end;
And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
And lift my soul to heaven.

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Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone forever.

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And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

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Now all the youth of England are on fire,
And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies.

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Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

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Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging.

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On the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him.

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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...

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For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

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Live a thousand years,
I shall not find myself so apt to die:
No place will please me so, no mean of death,
As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,
The choice and master spirits of this age.

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And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.

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Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation Limps after in base imitation.

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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought;
And with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?

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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

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Trust none;
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck.

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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

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Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
And with thy bloody and invisible hand,
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood;
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

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There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare