William Shakespeare quotes - page 59

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee. (William Shakespeare)
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. View quote
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you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now seems best. View quote
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Soft pity enters an iron gate. View quote
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Is not the truth the truth? View quote
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We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion. View quote
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My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. View quote
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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. View quote
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. View quote
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Report me and my cause aright. View quote
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The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. (William Shakespeare)
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt. View quote
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Murder most foul, as in the best it it But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. View quote
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First Witch He knows thy thought Hear his speech, but say thou nought. View quote
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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. View quote
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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people. View quote
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Security is the chief enemy of mortals. View quote
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. View quote
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By indirections find directions out. View quote
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This night I hold an old accustom'd feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more. View quote
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Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is lessoned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish. (William Shakespeare)
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. View quote
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Let there be gall enough in thy ink though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. View quote
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I am nothing if not critical. View quote
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I can no longer live by thinking. View quote
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William Shakespeare

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