William Shakespeare - Heart Quotes

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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

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My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.

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His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

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O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

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O God! Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.

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Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

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The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it....mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

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It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

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These words are razors to my wounded heart.

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He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

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O! he sits high in all the people's hearts:
And that which would appear offense in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

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The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

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Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

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O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.

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O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them.

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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

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By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

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Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
All many be well.

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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

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No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.

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Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

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Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

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Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.

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Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

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By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

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