William Shakespeare quotes - page 51

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. (William Shakespeare)
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. View quote
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You are not wood, you are not stones, but men. View quote
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It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections! View quote
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A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff. View quote
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Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met! View quote
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. View quote
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Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. View quote
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Get thee a good husband and use him as he uses thee. View quote
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We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. View quote
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. (William Shakespeare)
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! View quote
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Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs; The Duke shall grant me justice. View quote
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Love is ... a madness most discreet. View quote
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Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith. View quote
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Be bloody, bold, and resolute laugh to scorn the power of man. View quote
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Let's take the instant by the forward top for we are old, and on our quickest decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals ere we can effect them. View quote
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Commit The oldest sins, the newest kind of ways. View quote
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Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. View quote
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There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would. View quote
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The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (William Shakespeare)
He is not great who is not greatly good. View quote
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In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. View quote
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Ah, uncle Humphrey, in thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty! View quote
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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. View quote
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William Shakespeare

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Occupation: English Playwright
Born: 1564
Died: April 23, 1616
Quotes count: 1879
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