William Shakespeare quotes - page 53

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. (William Shakespeare)
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. View quote
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a na. View quote
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth But like of each thing that in season grows. View quote
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Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. View quote
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Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. View quote
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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side. View quote
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Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content; Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars; That make ambition virtue. View quote
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There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. View quote
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition. View quote
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Sound trumpets let our bloody colors wave And either victory, or else a grave. (William Shakespeare)
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. View quote
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Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. View quote
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By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. View quote
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GLOUCESTER I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night I thank my God for my humility. View quote
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Thou art a soul in bliss but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. View quote
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Well, Gods above all and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved. View quote
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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. View quote
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Help, master, help here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law 'twill hardly come out. View quote
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He that dies this year is quit for the next. View quote
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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. (William Shakespeare)
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise. View quote
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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate. View quote
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity. View quote
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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared. View quote
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