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Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.


William Shakespeare

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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
DOUGLAS JERROLD William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone spe...
JOYCE GRENFELL I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now,...
BRUCE DICKINSON At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W SOMERSET MAUGHAM At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Do you not know that I am a woman? When I think, I must speak
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To the best of my knowledge, I do not intend to applaud too much, nor degrade the Country I am in, I...
NATHANIEL SMITH First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came ...
MARTIN NIEMOELLER If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .
NAPOLEON HILL Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you know...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone...
TRAVIS THRASHER If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; ...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
AVA GARDNER If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise, She shall not long continue love to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged...
ANNE BOLEYN [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The number of pipes was obviously too many to just [drill] down. Then what are they for? I can assum...
SHOICHI NAKAGAWA I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak...
SAM WALTON If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of pr...
PABLO PICASSO If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
NAPOLEON HILL If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
NAPOLEON HILL If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who i...
ERICH VON STROHEIM He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pie...
JANE AUSTEN I saw you, I loved you, but now I miss you, and I still can't speak because I know you hate me.
MYA WAECHTLER Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ...
WALT WHITMAN People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've b...
CASEY STENGEL I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?
NEIL GAIMAN Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And...
WALT WHITMAN Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.
PROVERB Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
ARAVIND ADIGA If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
NAPOLEON HILL Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you ...
TOM CUNNINGHAM I, too, am here to speak for our children.
MIKE CLAWSON For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: / But as we were allowed of...
BIBLE Think before you speak but do not speak everything that you think.
VIKRANT PARSAI I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect ...
THEODORE BIKEL Stop telling me I’m oppressed.....I’m not a victim. I don’t know why feminists are so hellbent...
HANNAH BLEAU Just because he is Stu Jackson and all that, maybe I am supposed to be scared and not speak my mind....
DANNY FORTSON First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified bef...
DOROTHY DAY ...We must say to ourselves something like this: 'Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he di...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Sen...
ELIZABETH GASKELL If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself
BLAISE PASCAL If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm goin...
JESSE VENTURA Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I yet beseech your majesty,--
If for I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose n...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak ...
KANGANA RANAUT Sex is too sweet to speak about, you must only do it
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness a...
ALFORD They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers; a grievous word it is that comes out of their m...
QURAN Speak not too well of one who scarce will knowHimself transfigured in its roseate glow;Say kindly of...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist. MARTIN NIEMOLLER You must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
BUDDHA It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.
THOMAS HARDY TO ALL MANKIND

Speak kind words
to mankind
and the unkind
will attack you....
SUZY KASSEM William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages. A golden mind sto...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
IAIN M. BANKS You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak ...
CAM NEWTON Watch out for the dream killer or those who try to speak against what God has said. I make no apolog...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.
SOURCE UNKNOWN All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. ...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES This entire environment is filled with parmanu (the smallest, most indivisible and indestructible pa...
DADA BHAGWAN Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devot...
THOMAS MORE She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUS For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
JOANNE HARRIS I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I spe...
MALAIKA ARORA KHAN I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I...
JESSE VENTURA One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is tim...
CECIL BALDWIN To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
C. KENT WRIGHT In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Th...
MARTIN NIEM In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. T...
MARTIN NIEMOELLER If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that ...
ALISTAIR BEGG Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothin...
WALTER BENJAMIN Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of thing...
THOMAS BETTERTON I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals w...
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
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Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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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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