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Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 1.


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We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Mea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal suf...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For bei...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago wer...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our Lips Are Sealed.
HILARY DUFF I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My heart is not ready to feel real love again. It is too fragile for now the doors to my heart are s...
VANESSA MOJICA O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That daffed the world aside, And bid it pass. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am the Unknown Soldier
And maybe I died in vain,
But if I were alive and my country called...
BILLY ROSE I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The measure of our souls is not in the love we take, but in the love we give in unconditional measur...
JILL ANZINGER Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Ac...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is well paid that is well satisfied. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to thos...
TIM TEBOW O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that w...
FRANCIS BACON A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those who do not serve the True Guru waste away their lives in vain. O Nanak, the Lord does just as ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.

Throw things away and love will bring them back, TAYLOR MALI Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was sitting in the dugout thinking earlier in the game that it would be a little bizarre if we wou...
BROOKS SHUMAKE Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sick...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside,...
BIBLE My fate is like those envelopes – sealed and tossed aside.
JENNY B. JONES We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
MARIE EBNER VON ESCHENBACH The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
BIBLE With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, a...
SHANNON HALE We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never knew so young a body with so old a head. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here I love you.
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among...
PABLO NERUDA I have gained my experience. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something ...
SEX AND THE CITY Bring out number weight and measure in a year of dearth.
WILLIAM BLAKE Waight and measure take away strife.
GEORGE HERBERT An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER I know a trick worth two of that. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears, Toil withou...
A.M.W. BALL But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King Henry IV. Par...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medic...
BIBLE And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace, It sings of love that will ...
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. -King Henry...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Financial TV is sports for those that measure wins and losses by money, political TV is sports for t...
CARL WHITE O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! -King Henry IV. Pa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
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
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and...
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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and brea...
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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