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William Shakespeare
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“What cannot be eschewed must be embraced”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) first seen 1594 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rape of Lucrece (1594).
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That deep torture may be called a hell, When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On a day — alack the day! — Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture”
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“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was in love with my bed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is she not passing fair?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
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“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
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“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
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“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
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“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”
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“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
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“O God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.”
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“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
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“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
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“Off with his head!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
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“What light through yonder window breaks?”
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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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“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”
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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”
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“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
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“All that glisters is not gold.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
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“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”
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“A man can die but once.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
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Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“As merry as the day is long.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Thomas Percy
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
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“Can the world buy such a jewel?”
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“Beware the ides of March.”
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“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
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“Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war.”
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“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
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“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
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“'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'”
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Also quoted by: Anatole France (misattributed)
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
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“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
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“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!”
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