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William Shakespeare
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“All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am sure care 's an enemy to life.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“At my fingers' ends.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Wherefore are these things hid?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Is it a world to hide virtues in?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Is there no respect of place, parsons, nor time in you?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Sir To._ Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? _Clo._ Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“These most brisk and giddy-paced times.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Duke._ And what 's her history? _Vio._ A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Put thyself into the trick of singularity.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is very midsummer madness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“More matter for a May morning.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Still you keep o' the windy side of the law.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I 'ld have challenged him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Out of my lean and low ability I 'll lend you something.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Out of the jaws of death.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Clo._ What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl? _Mal._ That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For the rain it raineth every day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They say we are Almost as like as eggs.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength,--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source