William Shakespeare Quotes
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Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
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To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
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She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
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Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
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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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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
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After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.