William Shakespeare Quotes
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Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
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Ay, is it not a language I speak?
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
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Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
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But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
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No worse a husband than the best of men.
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Despair and die. The ghosts
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Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
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Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
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Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?
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JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
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All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
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Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
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O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
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England is safe, if true within itself.