William Shakespeare Quotes

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare

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• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

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• I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.

  

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• Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

  

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  

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• Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. O, my America, my Newfoundland My kingdom, safest when with one man mann'd, My mine of precious stones, my empery; How am I blest in thus discovering thee ! To enter in these bonds, is to be free ; Then, where my hand is set, my soul shall be.'

  

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• Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Notes
  • Passing