William Shakespeare Quotes

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A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

William Shakespeare
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

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It were all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me.

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This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

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What private griefs they have, alas! I know not.

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I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

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In those holy fields
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.

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Is it not strange, that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

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Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

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Had he not resembled
My father as he slept I had done't.

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Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then?

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Kent: Is this the promised end?
Edgar: Or image of that horror?
Albany: Fall and cease?

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I laughed him out of patience; and that night
I laughed him into patience: and next morn,
Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed.

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Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith.

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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done!

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Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.

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But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

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Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

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I have not kept the square, but that to come
Shall all be done by the rule.

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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones,
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.

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I am a man
More sinn'd against than sinning.

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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

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He will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the world.

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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

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For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

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I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool.

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He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

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Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new come spring?

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