William Shakespeare Quotes
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
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All offences come from the heart.
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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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Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?
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Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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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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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
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No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
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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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ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
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If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
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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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The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.
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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
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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.