William Shakespeare - Art Quotes

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I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win:

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This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath.

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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

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The naked, poor, and mangled Peace,
Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births.

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Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she....

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Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

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The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.

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Art thou his father?
Ay, sir, so his mother says, if I may believe her.

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How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.

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Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Clown: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

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Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails.

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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

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I must obey; his art is of such power,
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
And make a vassal of him.

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Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
Or art thou base, common and popular?

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O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

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I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O! had I but followed the arts!

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There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face;
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.

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