William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 4

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all.
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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Making night hideous.
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There's villainous news abroad.
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A plague o' both your houses.
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To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
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What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
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Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
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For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
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As full of spirit as the month of May.
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The ides of March are come.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
William Shakespeare
Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
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God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no nor woman neidier though by your smiling you seem to say so.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!
William Shakespeare
Love sought is good but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them - but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Give me my Romeo and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
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A light heart lives long.
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If music be the food of love play on Give me excess of it that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
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One man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Such as we are made of such we be.
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What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
William Shakespeare
The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.
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The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
But for my own part it was Greek to me.
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We know what we are but know not what we may be.
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And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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This bond is forfeit And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
William Shakespeare
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
William Shakespeare
At little more than kin and less than kind.
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Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
Forbear to judge for we are sinners all.
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Give every man thine ear but few thy voice Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
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O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!
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Are you good men and true?
William Shakespeare
The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands organs dimensions senses affections passions? fed with die same food hurt with the same weapons subject to the same diseases healed by the same means warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?
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