William Shakespeare Quotes
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
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Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.
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Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
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Now I will believe that there are unicorns.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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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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And she's fair I love.
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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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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.
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A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
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They are but beggars that can count their worth.
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.