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William Shakespeare
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have seen better days.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing can come of nothing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a man, More sinn'd against than sinning.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would fain die a dry death.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My library Was dukedom large enough.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“From the still-vexed Bermoothes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fill all thy bones with aches.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Gon._ Here is everything advantageous to life. _Ant._ True; save means to live.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A very ancient and fish-like smell.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Fer._ Here 's my hand. _Mir._ And mine, with my heart in 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He that dies pays all debts.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Deeper than e'er plummet sounded.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With foreheads villanous low.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source