William Shakespeare Quotes

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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

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He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

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Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.

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I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.

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Shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king, and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusty curb of old father antick, the law.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.

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You care not who sees your back: call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!

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Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.

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But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.

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Our decrees,
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead,
And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum.

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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

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When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings.

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Full bravely hast thou flesh'd Thy maiden sword.

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Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

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And there at Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colors he had fought so long.

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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

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They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow.

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The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu! Which is the side that I must go withal? I am with both: each army hath a hand; And in their rage, I having hold of both, They whirl asunder and dismember me.

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The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

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It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

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Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes.

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Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

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O! here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!

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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?

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My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate.

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Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings.

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He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not
Be noble to myself.

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