William Shakespeare Quotes
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When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
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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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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 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 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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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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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
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I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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The worm is not to be trusted.
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Much rain wears the marble.
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He is white-livered and red-faced.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
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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.