William Shakespeare Quotes

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Prosperity's the very bond of love,
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

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Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

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We have a nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in white, and cry 'mum'; she cries 'budget'; and by that we know one another.

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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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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

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And there the snake throws her enamelled skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

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

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

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Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.

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

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

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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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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

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

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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

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The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

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The turkeys in my panier are quite starved.

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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

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My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

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It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens.

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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wip'd a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

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