William Shakespeare quotes - page 53

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. (William Shakespeare)

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.

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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.

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Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

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Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side.

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Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content; Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars; That make ambition virtue.

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There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition.

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Sound trumpets let our bloody colors wave And either victory, or else a grave.

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The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. (William Shakespeare)

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Well, Gods above all and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

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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.

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He that dies this year is quit for the next.

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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.

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise. (William Shakespeare)

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

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William Shakespeare

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

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