William Shakespeare Quotes
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Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!
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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!
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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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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
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What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
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Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
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Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.
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A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
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Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
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And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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Greatness knows itself.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
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To saucy doubts and fears.
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You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
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Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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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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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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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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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows