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William Shakespeare
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“_Glen._ I can call spirits from the vasty deep. _Hot._ Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Exceedingly well read.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A good mouth-filling oath.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rob me the exchequer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That daffed the world aside, And bid it pass.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The cankers of a calm world and a long peace.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,--how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I could have better spared a better man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The better part of valour is discretion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A rascally yea-forsooth knave.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We that are in the vaward of our youth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Past and to come seems best; things present worst.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A poor lone woman.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 'll tickle your catastrophe.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He hath eaten me out of house and home.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source