William Shakespeare Quotes

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

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• The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

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• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
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• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
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• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

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• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

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• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

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• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  

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• I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

  

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• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

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• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

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• I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.

  

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• As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

  

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• Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Habit
  • Rich