William Shakespeare quotes - page 4

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. (William Shakespeare)
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. View quote
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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell! View quote
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises and oft it hits where hope is coldest and despair most sits. View quote
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A man can die but once. View quote
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. View quote
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence. View quote
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For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. View quote
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Exit, pursued by a bear. View quote
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. View quote
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The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. (William Shakespeare)
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. View quote
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Love is a smoke rais'd by the fume of sighs. View quote
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. View quote
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Give thy thoughts no tongue. View quote
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. View quote
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Listen to many, speak to a few. View quote
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. View quote
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. View quote
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. View quote
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (William Shakespeare)
Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues We write in water. View quote
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Things without remedy, should be without regard what is done, is done. View quote
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. View quote
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William Shakespeare

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

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