William Shakespeare Quotes
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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
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Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
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The king's name is a tower of strength.
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If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.
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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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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
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Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
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All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
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for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.
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The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
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When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
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Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
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Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
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These violent delights have violent ends.