William Shakespeare Quotes
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It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
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Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?
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To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.
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O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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These violent delights have violent ends.
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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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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
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Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.
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Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.
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Faults that are rich are fair.
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
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A light heart lives long.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now seems best.
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We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
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Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
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It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.
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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.