William Shakespeare quotes - page 38

When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with. (William Shakespeare)
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved. View quote
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. View quote
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad. View quote
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Wishers were ever fools. View quote
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I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal. View quote
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Can one desire too much of a good thing? View quote
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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. View quote
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The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow. View quote
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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand. View quote
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Cursed be he that moves my bones. (William Shakespeare)
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. View quote
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. View quote
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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. View quote
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He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes. View quote
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. View quote
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The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. View quote
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The better part of valor is discretion. View quote
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But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool. View quote
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! View quote
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The old folk, time's doting chronicles. (William Shakespeare)
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark... so may a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. View quote
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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me. View quote
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Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. View quote
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Things are often spoke and seldom meant. View quote
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Image
Occupation: English Playwright
Born: 1564
Died: April 23, 1616
Quotes count: 1879
Wikipedia: William Shakespeare

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