William Shakespeare Quotes
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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
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This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
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What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
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That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.
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Who is it can read a woman?
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A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
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I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
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Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.