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William Shakespeare
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“Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall--and farewell king!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A mockery king of snow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So shaken as we are, so wan with care.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Old father antic the law.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He will give the devil his due.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called the untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“God save the mark.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I know a trick worth two of that.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Brain him with his lady's fan.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A plague of all cowards, I say.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I was now a coward on instinct.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In King Cambyses' vein.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Play out the play.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am not in the roll of common men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source