William Shakespeare Quotes

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

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. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

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To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

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A man can die but once.

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Art made tongue-tied by authority.

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Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

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It is a sin to be a mocker.

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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

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All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.

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Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

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