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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.


William Shakespeare

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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Mea...
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 O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's tr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath eaten me out of house and home. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hat...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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 Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. 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 But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -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 An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -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 Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -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 I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let the end try the man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For bei...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have heard the chimes at midnight. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. Pa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. 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 Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Betw...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venic...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
THOMAS MIDDLETON Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged. -King Henry IV. Par...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. -K...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. -King Henry...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Corruption's not for modern date; It hath been tried in ev'ry state
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth.
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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,
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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...
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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;
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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.
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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...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and...
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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.
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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.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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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...
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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; ...
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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,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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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.
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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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