William Shakespeare Quotes
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They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.
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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
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Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.
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Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
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The patient must minister to himself
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O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
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Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
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Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.
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Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
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I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.