For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never die run smooth
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never said nothing..."
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got th...
TERRY PRATCHETT It could have been so beautiful.
The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The course of true anything never does run smooth
SAMUEL BUTLER Why did you run away last time?” William asks quietly, so quietly that at first, I think I’m ima...
ANNA B. DOE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Did you say all that you meant to
Before the curtain closed?
Or did you feel so much more<...
MARGO T. ROSE He was both everything I could ever want…
And nothing I could ever have…
RANATA SUZUKI William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly.
"What, and get attacked by another flock of can...
J.K. ROWLING We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I will never make the mistake of loving you ever again."
"So you choose him?"
That's all t...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at ...
A.E. HOUSMAN Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing a...
MARY BALOGH Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN You are a book being read every moment,
By someone or the other,
Though only in parts! <...
LUKHMAN PAMBRA What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did ...
VIKRAM CHANDRA Have you ever felt love?
Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have defini...
DERRICK JENSEN ... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"
"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
J.K. ROWLING It's like living in a nightmare, I never thought that could ever happen to me of course.
BETH MCNEIL Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear.
She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she...
KAMI GARCIA [Ever been kissed?]
Of course--Describe it
--Why?--I want to know if you've
JESS C. SCOTT The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could ha...
JOHN PIPER I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at...
JOHN KEATS I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
KAMAND KOJOURI How did you get my number?" I blurted, before I could stop myself.
"It's called research." I co...
MICHELLE HODKIN I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY You make me love you,
And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do...
JENNIFER NIVEN Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remembe...
ROBERT FROST It's a huge relief. It's a fairy tale ending, it's everything I could ever ask for.
BRANDON LOW A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —
LEWIS CARROLL She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ...
EUCHARISTA WARD I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,
I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Little sister don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister...
U2 Fairy-child, if only you should take my hand, I would show you things beyond your wildest dreams.”...
KRISTEN HUBBARD O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart?
How did touch my soul?
How did you win my...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I could take a walk with my wife and try
to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to.
PHILIP SCHULTZ The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
JOSE SARAMAGO Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
Therefore, we must be saved by hope....
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappoint...
SIMON VAN BOOY Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"
"Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Say it."
"Say what?"
"Tell me what you told me earlier."
"I love you."
"That's a...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I am
Mavis Elizabeth Betterly.
I am
used to hard work.
I can
run a househol...
CAROLINE STARR ROSE The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
WILLIAM GOLDMAN TRUTH
Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hate...
SUZY KASSEM I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or c...
S. JANE SLOAT Tis true my form is something odd
But blaming me is blaming God
Could I create myself ...
ISAAC WATTS TRUTH
Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hated
SUZY KASSEM Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women ...
W.B. YEATS If we could change just one thing in time, what would we change?
WARS, so that we could l...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part o...
ROBIN HOBB His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part o...
ROBIN HOBB Don't ever give up.
Don't ever give in.
Don't ever stop trying.
Don't ever sell ou...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people d...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER But have you ever seen one?....They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this ...
DARYNDA JONES We could never make that run offensively. We couldn't ever get any continuity offensively because of...
CRAIG RODEN How could she love him after what he did to her? How could she contemplate taking him back?”
COLLEEN HOOVER Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.."
Stephanie," he to...
STEPHANIE KLEIN Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don’t know
where I’m heading
with...
SANOBER KHAN a happy birthday
this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was g...
TED KOOSER It is strange to hear my words
Read back to me.
I don't think I wrote them
To h...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought ...
TIM BURTON That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,
A million scarce would quench desire;
Still would I stee...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have always felt this
And I, I could never hear it
So I turned it up
And turned it...
SARA QUIN Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes th...
BERNARD CORNWELL Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN I could pretend that I was ok
I wind around the parties, drink in hand
I could pretend whe...
CORINNE BAILEY RAE Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the onl...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.
They bring you
D
O
W
N.
Th...
COLLEEN HOOVER I do, love. I want you more than you could ever know. More than I could have ever dreamed. I want yo...
SARAH MACLEAN Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you.
Buttercup: But how can you be sure?
We...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever hav...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because ...
TAHEREH MAFI My tears of joy
hear the raindrops crying,
as the rain never wants to pour
down on my...
MUNIA KHAN Are you sure that’s a real spell?’ said the girl. ‘Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve t...
J.K. ROWLING Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sy...
JOHN KEATS When it comes
to love
do not ever
settle
for anything
less than magical.
SANOBER KHAN I could not kill her, of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at f...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I love you." He stabbed a thumb at his chest as he glared at her.
Of course he did. Lucien had ...
KRISTEN CALLIHAN Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullie...
JOHN BOYNE The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie. TRADITIONAL FOLKTALE ENDING Wait, you remember that?"
"Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked li...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remov...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?
He was all for love and a little for the bottle.
CHARLES DIBDIN Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? / He was all for love and a little for the bottle.
CHARLES DIBDIN To Gran, “strong medicine” could be good or bad, just like the laxatives she was forever
ta...
LILI ST. CROW
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my mind's eye, Horatio.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jesters do oft prove prophets
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like
an old tale that the verity of it ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it al...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Make not your thoughts you prisons.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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