The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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The most senseless and fit man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know that Deformed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You shall comprehend all vagrom men. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Comparisons are odorous. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Done to death by slanderous tongues. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. -M...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and ste...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the pu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The eftest way. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gentleman is not in your books. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak low if you speak love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Charm ache with air, and agony with words. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. -Much Ado about Noth...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel
than the man. But art not thou t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. -Much Ad...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Not...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rob me the exchequer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Muc...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The king's name is a tower of strength. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the su...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King He...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Off with his head! -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Much Ado About Nothing,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE much ado about nothing.
LAWRENCE DI RITA What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. -The Merchant of Ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of he...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
BUZZ ALDRIN O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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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