William Shakespeare Quotes
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
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Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
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For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.
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I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
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This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
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Who is it can read a woman?
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God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
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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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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
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The apparel oft proclaims the man.
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
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O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.