William Shakespeare Quotes
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A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
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I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
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The worm is not to be trusted.
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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
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Much rain wears the marble.
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A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
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A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
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He is white-livered and red-faced.
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Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
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Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
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I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.
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But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.
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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
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I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
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There is flattery in friendship.
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The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.