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William Shakespeare Quotes
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A red morn that ever yet betoken'd Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds, gust and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; one pain is less'ned by another's anguish; turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; one desperate grief cures with another's languish (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were temp'red with love's sighs; o, then his lines would ravish savage ears and plant in tyrants mild humility (William Shakespeare Quotes)
I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell (William Shakespeare Quotes)
I grant him bloody, luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Love is your master, for he masters you; and he that is so yoked by a fool methinks should not be chronicled for wise (William Shakespeare Quotes)
There she shook the holy water from her heavenly eyes, and clamor moistened; then away she started to deal with grief alone (William Shakespeare Quotes)
But yet, I do not like but yet, it does allay the good precedence; fye upon but yet; but yet is as a gaoler to bring forth some monstrous malefactor (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Hadst not thou been by, a fellow by the hand of nature marked, quoted and signed to do a deed of shame, this murder had not come into my mind; (William Shakespeare Quotes)
There is a fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his face, for o' my conscience twenty of the dog days now reign in's nose (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, to give them seals never, my soul, consent! (William Shakespeare Quotes)
The moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air that rheumatic diseases do abound; and, through this distemperature, we see the seasons alter (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new born babe. All many be well (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure the cygnets down is harsh, and spirit of sense hard as the palm of ploughman! (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Your honor call you hence; therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly, and all the gods go with you. Upon your sword sit laurel victory, and smooth success be strewed before your feet! (William Shakespeare Quotes)
I would be loath to cast away my speech; for, besides that it is excellently penned, I have taken great pains to con it (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Rather let my head stoop to the block than these knees bow to any save to the God of heaven and to my king (William Shakespeare Quotes)
She pined in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Had I power, I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell. Uproar the universal peace, confound all unity on earth (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance (William Shakespeare Quotes)
But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it (William Shakespeare Quotes)
You may as well forbid the sea for to obey the moon, as, or by oath, remove, or counsel, shake the fabric of his folly, whose foundation is pil'd upon his faith (William Shakespeare Quotes)
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, even so by love the young and tender wit Is turned to folly, blasting in the bud, losing his verdure even in the prime (William Shakespeare Quotes)
If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our english dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger (William Shakespeare Quotes)
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt (William Shakespeare Quotes)
The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet (William Shakespeare Quotes)
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible! (William Shakespeare Quotes)