William Shakespeare Quotes
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Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
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Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
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Things may serve long, but not serve ever.
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
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In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
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Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
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Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.
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By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
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If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
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Make passionate my sense of hearing.
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
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She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
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Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
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The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.