William Shakespeare Quotes
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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
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Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
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The time is out of joint.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
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I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
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Remembrance of things past.
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
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Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.
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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.
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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
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Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
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The king's name is a tower of strength.
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting
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All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.