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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.


William Shakespeare

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. -The Merchant of Ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Ven...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never knew so young a body with so old a head. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We will answer all things faithfully. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.
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 A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchan...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venic...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cot...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is well paid that is well satisfied. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchan...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And then to breakfast with What appetite you have. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, what fools these mortals be! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not e...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And sleep in dull cold marble. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief. -The Winter's Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and su...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Mer...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever a...
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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.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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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.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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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.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
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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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