William Shakespeare Quotes
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!
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Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
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Gold--what can it not do, and undo?
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
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Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
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To be direct and honest is not safe.
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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
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I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
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And what’s he then that says I play the villain?
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Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
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Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.
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You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.