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William Shakespeare
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“All hell shall stir for this.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,-- I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Delays have dangerous ends.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He dies, and makes no sign.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To leave this keen encounter of our wits.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Framed in the prodigality of nature.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A parlous boy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Even in the afternoon of her best days.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Tetchy and wayward.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The king's name is a tower of strength.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A thing devised by the enemy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Order gave each thing view.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source