William Shakespeare quotes - page 13

On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air. (William Shakespeare)
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. View quote
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The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. View quote
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Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days. View quote
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. counsel. View quote
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No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak. View quote
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Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe. View quote
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O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? View quote
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And what's he then that says I play the villain? View quote
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There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing. View quote
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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. (William Shakespeare)
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. View quote
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. View quote
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. View quote
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician. View quote
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Everyone can master a grief, but he that has it. View quote
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Unkindness may do much, And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. View quote
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Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night. View quote
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. View quote
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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man. View quote
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. (William Shakespeare)
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. View quote
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Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. View quote
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I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. View quote
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt. View quote
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William Shakespeare

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Occupation: English Playwright
Born: 1564
Died: April 23, 1616
Quotes count: 1880
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