William Shakespeare quotes - page 72

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights; Than those that walk and wot not what they are. (William Shakespeare)
I praise God for you, sir your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy. View quote
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know. View quote
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How long a time lies in one little word. View quote
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A politician is one that would circumvent God. View quote
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Society is no comfort; To one not sociable. View quote
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For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. View quote
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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery it makes him and it mars him it sets him on and it takes him off. View quote
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Zounds I was never so bethumped with words Since I first called my brother's father dad. View quote
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To fear the worst oft cures the worse. View quote
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... and in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief. (William Shakespeare)
My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. View quote
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. View quote
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion. View quote
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Within the book and volume of my brain. View quote
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Unhand me, gentlemen, By heaven, Ill make a ghost of him that lets me. View quote
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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy. View quote
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My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. View quote
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Beware of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. View quote
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. View quote
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Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past. (William Shakespeare)
Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts. View quote
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Feed on her damask cheek she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. View quote
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I am a true laborer I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm. View quote
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Men at some time are masters of their fates. View quote
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